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LGBT Veterans Independent Review

Commons · Question 5391 · Tabled 11 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 16 Oct 2024

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Asked by Alicia Kearns

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Departments plans to implement all recommendations in the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, published on 19 July 2023; what his planned timetable is for the implementation of recommendations; and how

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Answered by Al Carns, 16 Oct 2024

The Government acknowledges the historic policy prohibiting homosexuality in the Armed Forces was regrettable, wrong and completely unacceptable. The treatment of LGBT Serving personnel between 1967 and 2000 was wholly unacceptable and does not reflect to...