Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:18 pm on 31 January 2017.
I thank the First Minister for that, and I was recently contacted by my constituent Mr William Beer of Llanbradach, who turns 91 this year and was a Bevin boy during the second world war. When the Bevin boys programme was wound up in 1948, they didn’t receive any medals and their efforts went unrecognised until the VE Day fiftieth anniversary celebrations in May 1995. In June 2007, the UK Government announced that former Bevin boys would receive a veterans badge in recognition of their service. I feel it’s still not enough. I’m going to be writing to the Bevin Boys Association to ask them to contact my constituent, but, in the meantime, will the First Minister pay tribute to Mr Beer and people like him, and recognise his contribution to our country’s security during the second world war?