David Cameron bowed to pressure earlier this year to enshrine the covenant in law, ensuring that a range of measures will be introduced to ensure the sacrifice of military personnel is honoured.

These included continuing the Trident nuclear programme, extra money for reserve forces, big reforms to unwieldy and expensive procurement programmes and placing the Armed Force Covenant in law for the first time.

On 25 June 2010, The Times newspaper reported that Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to enshrine the Military Covenant in law - such a development would allow British servicemen and servicewomen to sue the State for breaches of the Military Covenant.