Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde
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Armed Forces: Discrimination
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Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde
Does the Minister agree that discrimination can take many forms? With the repositioning of Armed Forces personnel from Germany over the coming years, one area of concern may well be about the opportunity for their children to have access to the schools that their parents want them to go to and to get on the doctor’s list in the area that they wish. Does he agree that we may need to review the covenant, which is an extremely good initiative, to ensure that the families of Armed Forces personnel are not indirectly discriminated against?
Lord Astor of Hever
My Lords, the noble Baroness makes a very good point about children’s education and doctors. This is an area that we are looking at very closely.