Armed Forces (Services Complaints and Financial Assistance) Bill

Inquiry by the Defence Committee, 26 June 2014 to 30 March 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 5th Report - Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Bill (23 October 2014)
• 10th Special Report - Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Bill: Government Response to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2014–15 (19 December 2014)

Evidence sessions

• 8 July 2014: Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Jeremy Field MBE, former Head of Army Service Complaints Wing at HQ Army, Reverend Nicholas Mercer, former Command Legal Adviser for HQ 1st (UK) Armoured Division in Iraq War 2003, and Sara Ogilvie, Policy Officer, Liberty
• 15 July 2014: Mr Gavin Barlow, Director, Service Personnel Policy, Ministry of Defence, Brigadier John Donnelly CBE, Director, Personal Services (Army), Group Captain Mark Heffron, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff (Air Personnel), HQ Air Command, Commodore Andrei Spence, Head, Naval Legal Services, and Anna Soubry MP, Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans; Dr Susan Atkins CB, Service Complaints Commissioner for the Armed Forces.