Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Rebecca Long Bailey Excerpts
Monday 18th July 2022

(1 year, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Leo Docherty Portrait Leo Docherty
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We take these issues extremely seriously. That is why we have invested more than £936 million in service family accommodation in the last seven years, and there is more coming. Under the future accommodation model, we want to give choice, flexibility, and accommodation of the highest possible standard to those living in service family accommodation.

Rebecca Long Bailey Portrait Rebecca Long Bailey (Salford and Eccles) (Lab)
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British nuclear testing veterans and their families met the Prime Minister, Defence Ministers, the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) and me on 8 June. The veterans told me that they felt that the Prime Minister had listened to them, and they were hopeful that they would be formally recognised. Will the Secretary of State provide a progress report on the actions that he and the Prime Minister have taken since the meeting to secure the recognition that these veterans so deserve?

Leo Docherty Portrait Leo Docherty
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It was my great pleasure to be at that meeting, and I am happy to write to the hon. Lady with an update.