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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 06 Sep 2017
National Shipbuilding Strategy

"May I add my voice to those who welcome this announcement of our commitment to a growing Royal Navy, to high-skilled jobs right across the UK, and to more apprenticeships so that our young people are brought into this industry? Will the Secretary of State tell us how we will …..."
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Written Question
Armed Forces Independence Payment
Tuesday 5th September 2017

Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel claimed the Armed Forces Independence Payment in each year (a) before 6 April 2005 and (b) from 6 April 2005.

Answered by Tobias Ellwood

The Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP) was not introduced until 8 April 2013. The number of currently serving Armed Forces personnel who claimed AFIP in each Financial Year since that date is set out below:

Financial Year

AFIP Claimants

2013-14

36*

2014-15

5

2015-16

7

2016-17

6

Total

54

*The higher number of claimants in Financial Year 2013/14 includes those who were eligible to claim retrospectively from the date of inception of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme on 6 April 2005.

AFIP only becomes payable once an individual leaves the Armed Forces and is in receipt of a Guaranteed Income Payment of 50% or more, under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"18. What estimate he has made of the level of defence spending required over the course of this Parliament...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Will the Secretary of State join me in welcoming the Apache helicopter package worth £48 million to secure high-skilled jobs at Wattisham airfield in my constituency, and does he agree that that will help our armed forces to keep us safe, and that it is all due to a growing …..."
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