Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Chris Elmore Excerpts
Monday 24th May 2021

(2 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Wallace Portrait Mr Wallace
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The Government are committed to Operation Shader and will continue to be so. The threat of ISIS has not gone away. Indeed, throughout her deployment, the carrier will also potentially take part in operations to support it. It is very important that we continue to degrade ISIS capability, because of its destabilising effect in Iraq and the threat it poses directly to us.

Chris Elmore Portrait Chris Elmore (Ogmore) (Lab)
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I congratulate the new Veterans Minister on his promotion to the Ministry of Defence. In doing so, may I ask him to resolve an issue that I was told six months ago would be sorted out, which is the roll-out of the veterans’ ID card? This has been rolled out to personnel leaving the armed forces, but not to existing veterans. It was announced by his predecessor-but-two. His predecessor told me it would be resolved in due course. Six months on, it would be good if veterans in my Ogmore constituency and across the UK had an answer.

Leo Docherty Portrait The Minister for Defence People and Veterans (Leo Docherty)
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I recognise that this is an important issue. This is taking too long, so I look forward to reporting back to the hon. Gentleman with an update on progress.