Armed Forces: Medals
(asked on 13th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Platinum Jubilee Medals his Department has issued.
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal qualifying criteria has been amended and re-published as at 12 March 2024. It is anticipated that a significant cohort of Service personnel on Reserve engagements will now qualify under the revised criteria.
The below table shows the number of Platinum Jubilee Medals issued as at 15 March 2024.
Medal type | Total number of medals despatched | Total number of medals despatched due to distribution issued and replacements | Total number of medals issued by MOD to MOD personnel (single issue) |
HM the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal | 139,352 | 2,103 | 137,249 |
Due to distribution issues, additional medals have been despatched so that eligible individuals receive their medal as swiftly as possible. The originally issued medals are in the process of being located by the single Service Unit Admin or Logistics staff and returned to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Medal Office.
The below table shows the number of King’s Coronation Medals issued as at 15 March 2024.
Medal type | Total number of medals despatched | Total number of medals despatched as replacements due to damage whilst on duty | Total number of medals issued by MOD to MOD personnel (single issue) |
HM the King’s Coronation Medal | 21,535 | 20 | 21,515 |
Due to the lead time for receiving raw materials, production, delivery and internal MOD distribution, the project to award the bulk of the King’s Coronation Medal 2023 to eligible MOD personnel will take until October 2024 to conclude.