Question follow-through · 3856
Veterans: Compensation and Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the number of veterans who were in receipt of the (a) War Disablement Pension, (b) Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, (c) Service Invaliding Pension and (d) Service Attributable Pens
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the number of veterans who were in receipt of the (a) War Disablement Pension, (b) Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, (c) Service Invaliding Pension and (d) Service Attributable Pens
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2024
Answer published
As at 30 June 2024, the latest date for when data is available, 78,469 veterans were in receipt of a disablement pension under the War Pension Scheme (WPS) and 4,798 veterans were in receipt of a Guaranteed Income Payment (GIP) following an injury/illness...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Communications and Training Working Group
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Hawk Aircraft: Red Arrows
2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to replace the Hawk T1 fleet used by the Red Arrows.
Red Arrows: Finance
2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department has allocated to (a) the Red Arrows and (b) other military display teams in the Spending Review 2025.
Members: Correspondence
15 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Torbay sent on 22 and 27 April, reference SD16253.