Written question asked by Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) on Monday, 18 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 20 January 2010. It was answered by Lord Beamish (Labour) on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Help for Heroes

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much public funding has been awarded for the rehabilitation work of Help for Heroes (a) in total and (b) in Wales in each of the last five years.

Answer: [holding answer 25 January 2010]: Help for Heroes is a service charity which was established in 2007 and which raises funds to support wounded members of the armed forces in a range of different ways. As such it receives no public funding from the MOD. Help for Heroes naturally works closely with my Department on the projects that it chooses to support, but decisions on what those projects should be are a matter for the charity. We are enormously grateful for the major contributions that it is making to the welfare of our service personnel across the country. They include a grant of £8 million to support the building of a new swimming pool and gym complex at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court, Surrey, and financial support for the delivery, in partnership with the MOD, of a Pathfinder Army Recovery Centre in Edinburgh.

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