The Government has rejected 11 recommendations. Four of these were the alternatives from the pairs of recommendations representing the divergent views in the Committee (ie of the eight recommendations presented, the Government has accepted four and rejected four). The Government rejected a further five for various reasons as outlined in the attached table. In response to two recommendations the Government replaced the recommendation with a favourable outcome.
While the Government has rejected the recommendation to extend non-liability health care for certain psychiatric conditions to those with peacetime service after 1 July 2004, including Reservists, it has accepted the alternative recommendation for Defence and DVA to undertake further work to establish the benefit of, and need for, this care and the most appropriate mechanism for its delivery.