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65776 • Veterans: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to support people who served in Operation Banner.

69038 • Veterans: South Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking as part of the Valour programme to support veterans in South Shropshire constituency.

68083 • Battle of Arnhem

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to recognise the service of people killed in the Battle of Arnhem.

68256 • Armed Forces Covenant

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to introduce a (a) formal and (b) accessible complaints system for veterans when public bodies fail to meet their obligations under the Armed Forces Covenant.

68518 • Armed Forces: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that the training received by combat medical technicians who are not qualified paramedics is recognised by civilian health care employers.

68794 • Ministry of Defence: Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) the proposed requirement that trans people be excluded from (i) services and (ii) facilities that are designated single sex and (b) other proposals in the recent EHRC Draft Code of Practice to the Equality Act on the (A) financial and (B) operational readiness impacts of (1) his Department and (2) the armed forces.

67668 • Cadets: Bromsgrove

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to increase youth involvement in cadets in Bromsgrove constituency.

66891 • Veterans: Radiation Exposure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what stage of the approval process his request of the Advisory Medal Sub-Committee for an expansion of the criteria of the nuclear test medal is at.

66892 • Veterans: Radiation Exposure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will expand the qualifying criteria of the nuclear test medal so that veterans of the (a) 1960s, (b) 1970s and (c) 1980s who flew sampling missions through nuclear clouds of foreign nations are eligible.

66893 • Veterans: Radiation Exposure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to seek a Royal reception with His Majesty the King to honour nuclear testing veterans.

67243 • Veterans: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health on the potential merits of providing full spectrum medical cannabis to veterans with specific PTSD symptoms under the medical exemption certificate.

67127 • Ministry of Defence: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much their Department has spent on translating documents into languages other than (a) English and (b) other native UK languages in each year since 2023; and what these languages were.

61621 • Ministry of Defence: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much their Department has spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation for languages other than (i) British Sign Language and (ii) languages native to the UK for people contacting (A) their Department and (B) its agencies in 2025.

66620 • Ministry of Defence: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing specific (a) Sikh and (b) Jewish options for a person’s ethnic group in data collection conducted by his Department.

66168 • Armed Forces: Private Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of Continuity of Education Allowance rates for the children of service personnel.

66296 • Armed Forces: Conferences

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has issued guidance to senior members of the armed forces on speaking at (a) conferences and (b) panels where (i) Ministers and (ii) media are present since July 2024.

66360 • Armed Forces: Lone Parents

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he is taking steps to ensure that serving armed forces personnel living alone in service accommodation who are parents have time with their children.

65993 • Chinook Helicopters: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to meet with bereaved families associated with the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash.

65994 • Chinook Helicopters: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria was used to determine the 100-year classification of documents on the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash in 1994; and whether a review of that classification has been held in the last five years.

65995 • Ministry of Defence: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on introducing duty of candour legislation.