Office for Veterans' Affairs
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve the coordinating role of the Office for Veterans' Affairs across government.
Answered by Mr Calvin Bailey
In November 2025, the Government published its new 10-year Veterans Strategy that sets a new narrative around the remarkable men and women who have served in our Armed Forces. This strategy challenges the whole of society to think differently about those who have served in the Armed Forces, recognising veterans as one of the UK’s great strategic assets.
The Veterans Strategy is UK wide, cross-government and cross-sector in scope. It provides a framework for the whole of society to adopt and sets out our vision and long-term outcomes the government wishes to achieve, ordered around three key themes: to ensure that every veteran is celebrated for their service, empowered to realise their full potential, and provided with the support they deserve and reflects the reality that the majority of veterans are better off for having served.
The Office for Veterans’ Affairs is providing the coordinating function that underpins the governance and engagement to ensure ministers have greater oversight of activity, progress and data working with colleagues across government as we deliver on our priorities.
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