D-Day Landings: Anniversaries

(asked on 8th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funds his Department plans to allocate to Portsmouth's commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.


This question was answered on 11th October 2018

A range of major events will take place around Portsmouth and Normandy next June to mark 75 years since the D-Day landings. Although exact details of the events are yet to be confirmed, the Ministry of Defence will of course be significantly supporting Portsmouth City Council's programme.

There are currently no plans to allocate funding to Portsmouth City Council other than in response to requests for direct support to our D-Day veterans.

Portsmouth City Council is a part of the Ministry of Defence's planning, which includes conversations about the exact nature of its support, but it is expected that the activity in Portsmouth will be one part of a D-Day 75 programme that will be of similar size and scale to the D-Day 70 commemorations.

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