Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 18 December 2014, HCWS154, what progress has been made on the grave restoration campaign to restore the graves of First World War recipients who are buried in the UK but not under the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's restoration project, including the numbers and locations of the graves in question.

Between 2014 and March 2016 my Department supported the Victoria Cross Trust to restore 50 graves of First World War Victoria Cross recipients who are buried in the United Kingdom but are not under the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's restoration. In November 2016, the then Chancellor announced a further £600,000 to support restoration of the remaining graves.