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Question follow-through · 15241

Veterans: Age

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of veterans are over retirement age.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
25 Nov 2024
Answer
27 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of veterans are over retirement age.

  2. 25 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Census data for England and Wales in 2021 and Scotland in 2022 showed that there were approximately 1,071,000 veterans of UK Armed Forces living in Great Britain who were aged 65 years and over, the most relevant age bracket available from the Census data...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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