Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Penny Mordaunt and Scott Mann

Wednesday 10th October 2018 Commons Chamber

[Scott Mann (North Cornwall) (Con)]

T7. What steps is the Department taking to support our Commonwealth veterans, who served so bravely alongside our armed forces?

[Penny Mordaunt]

We are introducing a new programme to support our pre-independence Commonwealth veterans who have been living in poverty. There are about 7,000 of these individuals, to whom we owe an immense debt of gratitude. The new programme will ensure that they can live out the rest of their lives with their families in dignity.