Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many claimants to the Gurkha Pension Scheme (a) reside in the UK and (b) did not transfer to the Armed Forces Pension Scheme through the Gurkha Offer to Transfer.

The information is not held in the format requested.

This is because an individual claimant may be resident in the UK, but elected to be paid through one of the pay offices, Dharan, Pokhara, Kathmandu, to a Nepalese bank account for tax purposes, and therefore have a non-UK address recorded on the Far East & Nepal Administration Scheme (FENAS).

In addition, FENAS would also include individuals who have voted to transfer to the Armed Forces Pension Scheme (AFPS) but have not yet reached their 60th birthday and therefore continue to be paid their immediate Gurkha Pension until they move to AFPS75 at age 60.