Question follow-through · 69960
Armed Forces: Allowances
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel have received the tax free operational allowance in the 2025-26 financial year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2025 · 41 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
22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel have received the tax free operational allowance in the 2025-26 financial year.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Sept 2025
Answer published
The number of Service personnel who have received tax free operational allowance in each of the last five financial years including the financial year 2025-26 to date, can be found in the table below. Financial YearNumber of Employees2020-2153362021-22528...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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