Armed Forces: Northern Ireland
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2025 to Question 84961 on Legal costs for ‘Soldier F’, what information his Department holds on the cost to the public purse for pastoral care provided to (a) Soldier F and (b) the families of the people who died on Bloody Sunday.
Answered by Al Carns
The Ministry of Defence do not provide pastoral care to those who have not served.
Pastoral care provided to Soldier F during his legal proceedings involved the time of various employees and multiple organisations across the Department. Most of the associated costs are covered by central budgets within which the costs of support to individual cases are not separately identifiable, as such we cannot determine a specific figure for this support.
The Ministry of Defence will continue to provide the welfare and legal support to all service personnel that served during the troubles.
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