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, what was the total cost to the public purse of settled compensation claims for noise-induced hearing loss related to the Ajax project in each financial year since 2018-19.

None of the Ajax-related Noise-Induced Hearing Loss claims have yet settled.