Question follow-through · 15109
Military Aircraft: Helicopters
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the highest individual settlement paid to an aircrew member has been for the impact of helicopter exhaust fume exposure in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 26 Nov 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
19 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the highest individual settlement paid to an aircrew member has been for the impact of helicopter exhaust fume exposure in each of the last five years.
21 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2024
Answer published
In the last five financial years, damages have been paid in 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2023-24 to former aircrew who have made common law compensation claims alleging adverse impacts of helicopter exhaust fumes. I have concerns that disclosing individual damage...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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