Asked by: Kate Osborne (Labour - Jarrow and Gateshead East)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the criteria for Armed Forces Independence Payments to include veterans with service-related mental health conditions who may be impacted by changes to Personal Independence Payment criteria.
Answered by Maria Eagle - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Veterans with service-related mental health conditions may, depending on the severity of their condition, already be eligible for Armed Forces Independence Payments. Officials in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Ministry of Defence continue to work closely to ensure that where DWP benefits interface with the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pension Scheme, they are taken into consideration as work on welfare reform continues.
Asked by: Kate Osborne (Labour - Jarrow and Gateshead East)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2021 to Question 10678 on Armed Forces: Injuries, how many service personnel were not medically discharged despite having major injuries in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Leo Docherty
“Major injuries” have been interpreted as injuries that have a NOTICAS (notification of casualty) listing of Very Seriously Injured (VSI) or Seriously Injured (SI), a limb amputation, or a Health and Safety incident with a Major or Specified severity. It is possible to recover from a ‘major’ injury and be retained in service in the same or an alternative role.
Between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2021, there were 10,915 UK Service personnel who suffered a major injury but were not medically discharged. A breakdown by Financial Year is presented as follows:
Asked by: Kate Osborne (Labour - Jarrow and Gateshead East)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2021 to Question 10678 on Armed Forces: Injuries, whether Gavin Brierley, SN:30073719, of the Navy was one of the 3,205 people classified as having major injuries.
Answered by Leo Docherty
As my answer contains personal information, I will communicate privately with the hon. Member.
Asked by: Kate Osborne (Labour - Jarrow and Gateshead East)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2021 to Question 10678 on Armed Forces: Injuries, how many service personnel left the services (a) with and (b) without medical discharge in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Leo Docherty
Between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2021, there were a) 20,970 UK Regular Armed Forces medical discharges and b) 157,295 UK Regular Armed Forces personnel who left service without a medical discharge. A breakdown by Financial Year is presented as follows:
Table 1: UK Regular Armed Forces1 medical discharges and other outflow, by Financial Year, numbers
1 April 2011 to 31 March 2021
Year | Medical Discharges | Other Outflow2 |
Total | 20,970 | 157,295 |
2011/12 | 1,615 | 19,946 |
2012/13 | 2,314 | 21,553 |
2013/14 | 2,697 | 20,878 |
2014/15 | 2,644 | 16,643 |
2015/16 | 2,332 | 14,599 |
2016/17 | 2,467 | 12,839 |
2017/18 | 2,377 | 13,045 |
2018/19 | 1,822 | 13,021 |
2019/20 | 1,578 | 13,831 |
2020/21 | 1,124 | 10,940 |
Sources: DMICP, FMed 23, JPA
Asked by: Kate Osborne (Labour - Jarrow and Gateshead East)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are in their last year of service in the TG 317.01.
Answered by Leo Docherty
There are fewer than 20 personnel within their final year of service currently deployed with the Carrier Strike Group, the majority of whom have volunteered to participate in all or part of this exciting and professionally rewarding deployment.
These personnel should not be disadvantaged by their deployment and they will undertake their full resettlement training and transition from active service upon their departure from their respective units.
Asked by: Kate Osborne (Labour - Jarrow and Gateshead East)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK service personnel have left without medical discharge despite major injuries in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Leo Docherty
The table below shows the recorded numbers of UK Armed Forces personnel who suffered a major injury in each Financial Year (FY) from 2011-12 to 2020-21 and who subsequently left their service without medical discharge.
Financial Year | Personnel |
2011-12 | 551 |
2012-13 | 442 |
2013-14 | 418 |
2014-15 | 523 |
2015-16 | 422 |
2016-17 | 307 |
2017-18 | 227 |
2018-19 | 181 |
2019-20 | 98 |
2020-21 | 27 |
Table Notes: