Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) budget and (b) spending was of the Independent Review of UK Government Welfare Services for Veterans.

The Independent Review of UK Government Welfare Services for veterans was jointly commissioned by the Ministry of Defence and the Office for Veterans’ Affairs in the Cabinet Office in March 2023, and did not have a specific budget allocation. The team that conducted the review over four months was made up of three civil servants on loan from other Government Departments, consisting of an independent Senior Civil Servant at Pay Band 1, and two civil servants at Grade 6.