Platinum Jubilee 2022: Medals

(asked on 12th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of extending the eligibility criteria for (a) the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal and (b) HM the King's Coronation Medal to include ambulance support staff.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 18th December 2023

Individual Government departments are responsible for making eligibility decisions regarding the award of each Medal to staff of organisations that fall under their sponsorship. To qualify for the Platinum Jubilee Medal, emergency services personnel were required as part of their conditions of service, to have frontline responsibility for attending the scene of 999 calls. This was consistent with criteria that applied to the Diamond Jubilee Medal.

The same criteria apply to the Coronation Medal. The Coronation Medal will also be awarded to individuals who actively contributed to the official Coronation events. There are no plans to change the eligibility criteria for either Medal.

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