UK government confirms Liberation Day plans
It will include a special reception in Parliament and a visit to Jersey and Sark by Minister for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth, Stephanie Peacock.
Flags from the Channel Islands will also be flown from the Ministry of Justice and in Parliament Square.
It comes after Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell raised the lack of published plans to include the Channel Islands in Parliament.
Events will begin with a special reception in Parliament on 6 May.
It will be hosted by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, on behalf of the governments of Jersey and Guernsey, with UK ministers expected to attend.
Peacock will then travel to Jersey and Sark on 9 and 10 May to participate in the Liberation celebrations.
She will be joined by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice, who has responsibility for the UK's constitutional relationship with the Channel Islands.
Flags of all the Crown Dependencies will be flown from the top of the Ministry of Justice building and in Parliament Square.
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