Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 122 of his Department’s annual report and accounts for 2022-23, how many of the special payments reported for financial year 2022-23 were payments made under the (a) Common Law Compensation Scheme, (b) Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and (c) War Pensions Scheme.

The Special Payments table of the Department's Annual Report and Accounts (ARAc) for 2022-23 (page 122) does encompass payments made in settlement of claims made under common law.

Payments made under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme are voted for separately by Parliament and accounted for in the separate Armed Forces Pension Scheme Annual Report and Accounts.

(link: (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/armed-forces-pension-scheme-annual-accounts-2022-to-2023).

Payments made under the War Pensions Scheme are accounted for as a separate expenditure item in the Department's ARAc - see the "War Pension Benefits" item on page 109 of the 2022-23 ARAc.