Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's publication entitled MOD common law compensation claims statistics 2022/23, published on 26 February 2024, how many and what proportion of new compensation claims on noise-induced hearing loss were related to the Ajax project in each financial year since 2018-19.

The information requested, by financial year (FY), is below:-

FY2018-19 – Nil

FY2019-20 – Nil

FY2020-21 – Nil

FY2021-22 – Four (0.1%)

FY2022-23 – Four (0.1%)