Greg Mulholland – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-09-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to restore compensation for war widows who remarried between 1973 and 2005.

Mark Lancaster

The Government remains sympathetic to the circumstances of those affected. We are reviewing the position, but need to take account of the wider consequences for other public sector schemes of making retrospective changes.