Rejected petition: Send the Gurkha Brigade to assist the peoples of Nepal
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Deploy the Gurkha Bde to assist the peoples of Nepal following from floodwater
The recent floods in Nepal are dreadful, deaths will the massive humanitarian response.
The Gurkha have been part of our Army through two world wars and we must now send the. with their support arms
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
Decisions about the deployment of British troops to Nepal are a matter for the Nepalese Government, not the UK Government or Parliament.
On 1st September 2026, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Lord Wood of Anfield, stated in the Lords Chamber that:
“I pay tribute to the Gurkhas and I appreciate the noble Lord’s reference to them. As he said, the support we are offering has to be led by the Nepalese Government and partners on the ground. I assure noble Lords that the support we are continuing to provide is changing as the needs change in the development of this crisis and as the kinds of challenges that the Nepalese are facing evolve.”
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