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HANSARD RAF Photographic Reconnaissance UnitThank you, Ms Vaz, for your chairship. I welcome this fantastic debate on the role of the RAF photographic reconnaissance unit in world war two. I will not detract from the…17 Jul 2025HANSARDHistorical Abuse Redress Scheme: MOD ContributionQueen Victoria school is a co-educational, non-denominational, non-selective boarding school in Dunblane, Perthshire, owned and operated by the Ministry of Defence. Following…17 Jul 2025HANSARDDefenceThe scheme will be open for two years , but I want to be absolutely clear, as I have been with the previous and current heads of Fighting With Pride, and assure all LGBT veterans…15 Jul 2025HANSARDDefenceThe scheme will be open for one year, but I want to be absolutely clear, as I have been with the previous and current heads of Fighting With Pride, and assure all LGBT veterans…15 Jul 2025HANSARDDefenceThere were payments to 84 applicants for the dismissed or discharged payment, with each applicant receiving over £50,000. Additionally, we have made £82,000 in impact payments to…15 Jul 2025HANSARDDefenceThere were payments to 84 applicants for the dismissed or discharged payment, with each applicant receiving over £50,000. Additionally, we have made £82,000 in impact payments to…15 Jul 2025HANSARDService Police Complaints Commissioner: Annual Report 2024I am pleased to lay before Parliament today the Service Police Complaints Commissioner’s annual report for 2024 on the Service Police complaints system. The report is published by…10 Jul 2025HANSARD LGBT Financial Recognition SchemeIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard. I thank the hon. Member for Chichester (Jess Brown-Fuller) for securing this important debate and for her wider…09 Jul 2025HANSARD LGBT Financial Recognition SchemeThat is a really valid point and I will make sure that there is a communication strategy put in place to ensure that both the individuals affected and hon. Members from all…09 Jul 2025HANSARD LGBT Financial Recognition SchemeMy hon. Friend is absolutely correct and I champion what he says. For anyone out there who has not made an application, please get in touch and process it as fast as possible. I…09 Jul 2025HANSARD Military Helicopters: Blood CancersI will need to come back to the hon. Member on the specific legalities around that issue; I am not a lawyer. The war pension scheme and armed forces compensation scheme for…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Military Helicopters: Blood CancersI thank the hon. Member for his intervention. Various programmes reach out to those serving, and those who are ex-serving, to highlight the risks of serving in defence. The lack…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Military Helicopters: Blood CancersI thank you for allowing me to speak under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Jayne Kirkham) for securing this…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Military Helicopters: Blood CancersUnfortunately, we do not have a timescale at the moment. The scale of the task is hard to define. In terms of where the records sit, no one keeps records on veterans when they…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Military Helicopters: Blood CancersI thank my hon. Friend for the question. Several studies were conducted on the Sea King. In 2010 a study was conducted during operational flying in Afghanistan—I was out there at…08 Jul 2025HANSARD Military Helicopters: Blood CancersI thank my hon. Friend for raising that point. That is why we brought the armed forces covenant into law just two weeks ago, which now increases the number of Government…08 Jul 2025HANSARDSupporting VeteransJust last week, I visited several different organisations, one of which was Launchpad in Liverpool, which showed some examples of supported housing for veterans. It is not lost on…30 Jun 2025HANSARDSupporting VeteransFirst, I would like to recognise Mr Roy Briggs, a world war two veteran who recently passed. Those of us on both sides of the House salute our greatest generation. As the…30 Jun 2025HANSARDSupporting VeteransThe armed forces covenant trust fund is one of the mechanisms we use to support the charitable sector, but we must also step back and look holistically at the fact that there are…30 Jun 2025HANSARDNuclear Test Veteran Records Exercise and the Merlin DatabaseBetween 1952 and 1967, around 22,000 armed forces personnel, as well as scientists and civilians, took part in the UK’s nuclear testing programme in Australia and the Pacific to…30 Jun 2025