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Platinum Jubilee 2022: Medals

Question for Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

UIN 18525, tabled on 18 June 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the qualifying criteria are for the Platinum Jubilee medal; and what plans the Government has to award the medal to former members of the armed forces.

Answered on

23 June 2021

Recipients of the Platinum Jubilee Medal will include members of the Armed Forces, frontline members of the Prison Service that are publicly employed,frontline emergency services and members of the Royal Household. Recipients must also have completed the relevant period of qualifying service.

It is for the relevant Government Department, Devolved Administration or Crown Dependency to apply these broad criteria, and any additional sub-criteria they deem relevant. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that recipients must be serving members of the armed forces on 6th February 2022 to be eligible to receive the Platinum Jubilee Medal.

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