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The Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) (Filipino: Tanggapan para sa Ugnayan ng mga Beteranong Pilipino) is the Philippine agency for Filipino war veterans. Under the Department of National Defense , [ 3 ] PVAO serves to fulfill a national commitment as embodied in Section 7, Article XVI of the 1987 Philippine Constitution :
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Veterans and People is a ministerial position in the Ministry of Defence in British government, currently held by Alistair Carns. From 2022 to 2024, the role was Minister of State for Veterans' Affairs in Cabinet Office and the minister attended the Cabinet .
The Department of National Defense or DND was formally organised on November 1, 1939, pursuant to Executive Order No. 230 [3] of President Manuel L. Quezon to implement Commonwealth Act No. 1 or the National Defense Act of 1935 passed by the National Assembly on December 31, 1935, [4] and Commonwealth Act No. 340 creating the department.
During the 1920s and 1930s, British civil servants and politicians, looking back at the performance of the state during World War I, concluded that there was a need for greater co-ordination between the three services that made up the armed forces of the United Kingdom: the Royal Navy, the British Army and the Royal Air Force.
Historical marker. The Veterans Memorial Medical Center was established pursuant to Public Law 865, 80th U.S. Congress on July 8, 1948, which provided $9.4 million for the construction of a hospital facility with the land to be donated by the Philippine government. [1]
Role formed out of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People and Veterans Minister for Defence People Leo Docherty: 7 July 2022 7 September Conservative: Boris Johnson: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People, Veterans and Service Families Sarah Atherton: 20 September 2022 27 October 2022 Conservative: Liz Truss
The agency provided personnel with pensions, welfare, and support to current and veteran service members of the British Armed Forces. It was formed on 2 April 2007, with the amalgamation of the Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency, and the Veterans Agency. In early April 2014, the agency then merged with the Defence Business Services.
As prescribed by House Rules, the committee's jurisdiction is on the welfare of war veterans, veterans of military campaigns, military retirees, and their surviving spouses and other beneficiaries. [ 1 ]