Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) service personnel and (b) veterans have received payroll and pension deductions for the purposes of savings and loans in each of the last five years.

The table below shows the number of Service personnel and veterans who have deductions from payroll or pensions for savings and loans through the Armed Forces Credit Union since November 2015, when it became possible to do so. The facility for veterans to have deductions taken from pension payments has only been available since 2016.

Please note the 2018 data is provided up to 31 October 2018, and individuals may have deductions taken in more than one year.