Defence

Navendu Mishra Excerpts

Monday 13th July 2020 Ministerial Corrections

The following is an extract from Defence questions on Monday 6 July 2020.

[Navendu Mishra]

The Minister said that the veterans’ gateway app would put veterans’ care in the palm of every veteran in the country. Can he tell us how many people have downloaded and used this app in its first two months?

[Johnny Mercer]

I have not formally launched the veterans’ gateway app at the moment. We are going through a process of working with users and so on to make it more user-friendly. That is an ambition of mine: to put veterans’ care in the palm of every single veteran in this country. We will have a formal launch and I would be delighted if the hon. Gentleman came with me to that launch. We can then look at the figures together and perhaps work on getting the app into more people’s pockets as we go.

[Official Report, 6 July 2020, Vol. 678, c. 650.]

Letter of correction from the Minister for Defence People and Veterans, the hon. Member for Plymouth, Moor View (Johnny Mercer):

An error has been identified in the response I gave to the hon. Member for Stockport (Navendu Mishra).

The correct response should have been: