Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether those who served in the armed forces for less than five years and paid into the Armed Forces Pension Scheme prior to the minimum criteria of five years reckonable service coming into force are entitled to pension payments.

Armed Forces Pension Schemes are non-contributory, Service personnel do not 'pay in'. If the Service person did not meet the minimum reckonable service requirement for the pension policy in place at the time of their discharge, then there would be no pension entitlement.