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Cyber-security and UK Democracy
Monday 25th March 2024

(8 months, 3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Grant Shapps Portrait Grant Shapps
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My hon. Friend can absolutely have that assurance. It is shocking to see what is happening in the region, but it is too often forgotten—including in this House today by some Opposition Members—that this all began with the taking of those hostages. We will never forget.

Martyn Day Portrait Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk) (SNP)
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T7. Pension justice is on everybody’s lips just now, so can the Minister tell me what this Government have done to support the 30,000 veterans who left service before 1975 and who have lost out on preserved pensions?

Andrew Murrison Portrait Dr Murrison
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I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. As he knows very well, consecutive Governments have made it plain that we do not make changes to pensions retrospectively. As for pensions for the armed forces overall, Mr Speaker, you will know, as I do as a beneficiary, that they are equitable, fair and generous.

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