Question follow-through · 81720

Armed Forces: Discharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many medically discharged service personnel were provided with mental health assessments as part of their discharge process in each year since 2023.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 13 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 15 Oct 2025
Answer: 21 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many medically discharged service personnel were provided with mental health assessments as part of their discharge process in each year since 2023.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2025
Answer published
The number of UK Armed Forces personnel medically discharged with a Structured Mental Health Assessment (SMHA) entered into their electronic medical record is as follows: 1,198 in 2023-24 (of 1,963 UK regular Armed Forces medical discharges)1,319 in 2024-...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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