Closed petition Increase funding for mental health services and accommodation for veterans

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• 19 May 2019

  Petition closed

• 25 February 2019

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  Defence Committee report

  You may be interested to know that a group of MPs called the House of Commons Defence Committee has published a report on Mental Health and the Armed Forces.

  Read the Committee’s report:

  https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmdfence/1481/report-overview.html

  Find out more about the Committee’s inquiry, including all the evidence it received:

  https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/defence-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/inquiry15/

  More about the Committee:

  What is the Defence Committee?

  The Defence Committee looks at and questions how the Government Department, the Ministry of Defence:
  • is run
  • spends money
  • decides on its policies

  It's a cross-party committee and is independent of the Government.

  You can find out more about the Committee on its website:

  https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/defence-committee/

  You can follow the Committee on Twitter: @CommonsDefence

  The Defence Committee is a ‘Select Committee’. Find out how Select Committees work:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2RDuDs44c&feature=youtu.be

  Find out about how to get involved in your UK Parliament: http://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/

• 19 November 2018

  Petition published

  This petition can now be signed.

  If this petition gets 10,000 signatures, government will respond to it.

  If this petition gets 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in Parliament.

  This petition will stay open until 19 May 2019.