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Northern Ireland Veterans Commissioner

Debate between Gavin Robinson and Peter Dowd
Tuesday 15th October 2024

(2 months, 1 week ago)

Westminster Hall
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Gavin Robinson Portrait Gavin Robinson
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I appreciate that the Minister is here today and speaks with a personal connection to this story. She will know that the commitments in NDNA were important and represented work done in the Defence Select Committee and through private Members’ Bills to make sure veterans in Northern Ireland had a strong voice, as their counterparts across the United Kingdom do. She should also know that the last number of years have proven very difficult for veterans, with the closure of the VSO and with the feeling that they are not treated the same as their counterparts across the UK. Does she understand that the most important initial step she could take would be to confirm that the NIO will advertise the position of Veterans Commissioner? Doing that now would indicate a commitment to that support.

Peter Dowd Portrait Peter Dowd (in the Chair)
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Order. This is a half-hour debate. I accept that people are intervening on a very important matter, but I ask Members to be careful and considerate with their interventions in such debates.