Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to extend the qualifying criteria for Platinum Jubilee Medals to those working in voluntary sector organisations providing support to public services such as York Rescue Boat.

The Platinum Jubilee Medal criteria was agreed across the government, Devolved Administrations and Crown Dependencies, and has been determined on the basis of the precedent for previous commemorative Jubilee medals.

To qualify for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal recipients must be in an eligible public sector role in a frontline emergency service accessed via a call to the 999 emergency telephone number, or equivalent.