Ministry of Defence written question – answered am ar 6 Mawrth 2024.
Angus MacNeil
Chair, International Trade Committee, Chair, Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, Chair, Energy Security and Net Zero Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether (a) written and (b) photographic materials taken from people investigated for homosexuality in the armed forces (i) are still held by his Department, (ii) were returned to those investigated and (iii) were destroyed.
Andrew Murrison
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
Service police investigative records are routinely and lawfully destroyed in line with data protection legislation and Defence policy; once they have no investigative value there is no basis to retain them, particularly as they contain sensitive personal information. Furthermore, the destruction of investigative records concerning decriminalised sexual offences in line with Defence policy means that most investigative records relating to LGBT ‘offences’ have been destroyed.
Yes1 person thinks so
No1 person thinks not
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