Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people who registered as visually impaired who were veterans of the armed forces in each of the last three years.

The Department and NHS England do not currently collect specific data on the number of veterans registering as visually impaired and are unable to provide an estimate.

The Department will give further consideration to collecting this data and will discuss the possibility of including an option to identify as a veteran on the registration document with NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre.