Question follow-through · 26723
Veterans: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce the time taken for compensation processing for veterans with PTSD-related claims.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 8 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
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce the time taken for compensation processing for veterans with PTSD-related claims.
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
The information is not held in the format requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However, it may be helpful to note that War Pension Scheme (WPS) and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) claims are not categorised by condition o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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