Alarm raised over slow pace of payouts to UK veterans fired over sexuality | LGBTQ+ rights
By: Peter Walker Senior political correspondent | Published: 2025-06-27 05:00:00 | Source: www.theguardian.com
An MP has raised alarm at the slow pace of a scheme to compensate LGBT service personnel dismissed or discharged from the forces because of their sexuality, saying that at the current rate it could take more than a decade to complete the process.
Jess Brown-Fuller, the Liberal Democrat MP for Chichester, said she began examining the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme, formally launched in December, due to the experiences of a constituent, who is one of just 69 people to have been compensated, of more than 1,200 who have applied.
Liz Stead, who was discharged from the RAF in 1969 after letters between her and her girlfriend were discovered by military police, said her case had been given priority because she has a rare lung condition. While she received compensation last month for being…
