Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to include an option on the official form by which people register as visually impaired that allows them to identify as a veteran.

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.