Support for Veterans

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 28 February 2018.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 2:00, 28 February 2018

Can I thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your support for our veterans across the country? I know that your update to the cross-party group recently was very much appreciated by all of the members. Following your address to the meeting, the meeting obviously continued, and one of the issues that was taxing the minds of people around the table was that of the need to identify more veterans across Wales in order that we can offer them proactively the support that they may need. Now, one of the ways to achieve this is, of course, the adoption of a veteran ID card, something that the cross-party group and my party and others in this Chamber have considered on many occasions in the past. Whilst I appreciate that this is a recommendation to which you will respond in due course, I wonder whether you could give us the Welsh Government's thinking on this at this particular time, because I think it is something that we need to address sooner rather than later.