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  Armed Forces Bill - Clause 2 - Armed Forces Covenant Report - Minister for Former Armed Services Personnel
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require a Minister for Former Armed Services Personnel to report each year on the armed forces covenant.
  @ MP voted no against requiring a Minister for Former Armed Services Personnel to report each year on the armed forces covenant.
  
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring a Minister for Former Armed Services Personnel to report each year on the armed forces covenant.
  
  The amendment rejected by the majority of MPs was:
  
  :Amendment 2, page 2, line 5, leave out âSecretary of Stateâ and insert âMinister for Former Armed Services Personnelâ.
  
  This would have affected Clause 2 of the Bill[2], subclause (1) of which, at the time of the vote, stated:
  
  :(1)   The Secretary of State must in each calendar yearâ
  	(a)   prepare an armed forces covenant report; and
  	(b)   lay a copy of the report before Parliament.
  
  The same MP who proposed the amendment voted on in this vote, Mr Elfyn Llwyd, also proposed[3] a new clause which would included the provision:
  :A Minister shall be appointed within the Cabinet Office who shall be known as the Minister for Former Armed Services Personnel
  
  At the time of the vote there was no Minister for Former Armed Services Personnel. 
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-12/armedforces.html Parliament's webpage on the Armed Forces Bill, now an Act]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/122/11122.1-6.html#j32 Clause 2 of the Armed Forces Bill at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/122/amend/pbc1221406m.2353-2359.html Amendment sheet for consideration of the Armed Forces Bill on 14 June 2011]
  
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