Create a priority housing, healthcare and welfare system for veterans
- Final Signatures: 121
The Government should create a priority system for veterans that entitles them to priority over housing and other welfare benefits, and funds priority health services for veterans.
Found: British veterans have made significant sacrifices for our country, and it's crucial to ensure they receive
Apr. 12 2024
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Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, the opportunities for nuclear test veterans are the same as for all veterans who are now in - Speech Link
2: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, all Governments take the issues of veterans extremely seriously. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) has housed over 477 veterans. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) The way I look at it, we need to help veterans. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lampard (Con - Life peer) Veterans are 10 times more likely than non-veterans to experience gambling harms, and to gamble as a - Speech Link
We would like the Government to consider an allocation of hotel accommodation to homeless veterans akin to that given to asylum seekers who come to England and await processing.
Found: urges a fair and compassionate approach to accommodation allocation, emphasising the need to recognize veterans
Mentions:
1: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) when they expect to have implemented Lord Etherton’s recommendations on financial redress in the LGBT veterans - Speech Link
2: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) They accepted it in July, but we still have no financial redress for these veterans, whose careers were - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) We are now hearing that His Majesty’s Government are spending time creating a scheme for LGBT veterans - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) It is the least that we owe it, and the veterans it serves, to enact every recommendation in the review - Speech Link
5: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I say again that anybody who has any interest in this should apply on the “LGBT veterans: support and - Speech Link
Increase support for homeless veterans
- Final Signatures: 128
We want the Government increase support for homeless veterans, to ensure they are offered suitable housing and have access to support services, including for mental health.
Found: Some veterans left home to join the army at the age of 16, and went to war at the age of 18, but too
Increase funding to support the wellbeing and mental health of veterans
- Final Signatures: 373
We would like there to be more funding dedicated towards the provision of military mental health professionals and accessible places for veterans to be able to go after having witnessed trauma and/or been injured whilst serving in the armed forces.
Found: Many veterans are living with the consequences of war physically and mentally, sometimes without any
Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) On 28 November 2023, I made a commitment during the debate on Nuclear Test Veterans: Medical Records - Speech Link