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date	21/07/2021
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Veterans: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many UK veterans are currently resident in Northern Ireland; and how that number is identified.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL2266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2021 answer text <p>The UK Government has no current means to identify UK veterans who are resident in Northern Ireland. Due to the sensitivities of the legacy of Northern Ireland’s past, many who served and now reside there do not feel safe disclosing their veteran status, and the question was not included in the 2021 Census in Northern Ireland as it was in England and Wales.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Office for Veterans’ Affairs is working with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency on alternative solutions.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 03/08/2021 11:45:34 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

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date	14/07/2021
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Veterans: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure the protection of veterans who served in Northern Ireland while ensuring that the implementation of any such protection does not result in those responsible for terrorist offences evading justice.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL2030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that it will deliver on its commitments to NI veterans as part of a wider package to address the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland.</p><p><br> As set out by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland last week, the Government’s proposed package focuses on reconciliation, information recovery and ending the cycle of investigations that is not working for anyone.</p><p><br> The Government remains clear however, that it will never accept any moral equivalence between those who upheld the law in Northern Ireland and those, on all sides, who sought to destroy it.</p><p><br> These proposals will be considered as part of the ongoing intensive talks process with the NI parties, Irish Government and representatives of NI society, further to which we will bring forward legislation.</p><p><br></p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 20/07/2021 13:27:08 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown