Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what advice his Department provides to Veterans UK medical assessors on the (a) validity and (b) importance of Personal Independence Payment assessments when determining War Pensions payments.

All Medical Advisors are aware that Personal Independence Payment documentation may contain self-assessment of function, clinical examination findings and observations, functional assessments and sometimes medical reports which can be helpful in decision making in War Pension supplementary allowance claims and therefore these would be regarded as valid evidence. However, it is important to stress that as the entitlement criteria for Personal Independence Payment and the War Pension supplementary allowances are governed by separate legislation the awards are not always directly comparable.