Armed Forces: LGBT People

(asked on 26th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure the removal of wrongful dismissal from employment records for LGBT people who have been dismissed from the armed forces.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 1st February 2022

As part of the new Veterans' Strategy Action Plan 2022-24, the Defence Secretary and I announced that we will commission an Independent Review into the impact of the pre-2000- ban on homosexual personnel in the Armed Forces. The Government will consider any further action in response to that Independent Review.

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