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Question follow-through · 26778

Armed Forces: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the defence budget is accounted for by armed forces pensions.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
30 Jan 2025
Answer
30 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the defence budget is accounted for by armed forces pensions.

  2. 30 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Armed Forces Pensions represent around 9% of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) budget in financial year 2024-25. This does not include any of the Armed Forces Pensions Schemes' Annually Managed Expenditure, which sits outside the MOD's budget.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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