Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of (a) how many service record requests are outstanding and (b) the expected waiting time for a service record claim.

Serving and veteran requestors can generally expect to receive their service record within one month, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 legal deadline. During June, 88% of requests were answered on time. There are currently 370 outstanding cases.