Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to assist financially those military veterans who retired with fewer than 22 years' service before 5 April 1975.

No estimate has been made of the cost of resolving legacy pension issues although it would likely cost the tax-payer billions of pounds; the issue of pre-1975 pensions does not just affect the Armed Forces, but is common to all other public service schemes in existence prior to the Social Security Act 1973.