Veterans: Identity Cards
(asked on 1st July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veteran ID cards have been issued to veterans who were discharged before December 2018, by council area.
Over 192,000 HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards have been issued to eligible veterans discharged before December 2018. Due to the data collected, it can only be accurately mapped to region and postcode area, rather than council areas.
The tables below include all Veteran Cards posted since January 2024, excluding cards automatically issued to those leaving service after December 2018. The data is rounded to the nearest hundred to allow for:
- A small number of duplicate cards posted, for example replacements;
- Any inaccuracies in mapping postcodes on area boundaries;
- Address changes since postage; and
- Disclosure protection for areas with low numbers.
The Veterans Data Dashboard also provides more robust population data, including by local authorities, using census and other open government data - https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/office.for.veterans.affairs/viz/2024-07-29VeteransDataDashboardv2final/Story1
Posted Veteran Cards by Region | |
Channel Islands | 200 |
East England | 4,600 |
East Midlands | 18,200 |
East of England | 13,000 |
Greater London | 8,300 |
Isle of Man | 100 |
North East | 19,300 |
North West | 22,300 |
Northern Ireland | 3,700 |
Scotland | 16,400 |
South East | 29,900 |
South West | 30,700 |
Wales | 11,300 |
West Midlands | 14,100 |
Total | 192,100 |
Posted Veteran Cards by Postcode Area | |
Aberdeen | 1,400 |
Bath | 2,600 |
Belfast | 3,700 |
Birmingham | 2,400 |
Blackburn | 1,100 |
Blackpool | 1,300 |
Bolton | 800 |
Bournemouth | 2,200 |
Bradford | 1,000 |
Brighton | 2,000 |
Bristol | 2,500 |
Bromley | 300 |
Cambridge | 900 |
Canterbury | 1,900 |
Cardiff | 3,100 |
Carlisle | 1,300 |
Chelmsford | 1,200 |
Chester | 2,500 |
Cleveland | 2,300 |
Colchester | 1,600 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 100 |
Coventry | 2,000 |
Crewe | 1,100 |
Croydon | 400 |
Darlington | 2,500 |
Dartford | 700 |
Derby | 2,000 |
Doncaster | 3,400 |
Dorchester | 1,700 |
Dudley | 700 |
Dumfries | 600 |
Dundee | 1,100 |
Durham | 1,200 |
Edinburgh | 2,200 |
Enfield | 300 |
Exeter | 2,500 |
Falkirk | 900 |
Galashiels | 500 |
Glasgow | 2,300 |
Gloucester | 3,000 |
Guernsey | 100 |
Guilford | 3,400 |
Halifax | 400 |
Harrogate | 600 |
Harrow | 300 |
Hemel | 1,200 |
Hereford | 1,000 |
Huddersfield | 600 |
Hull | 1,900 |
Ilford | 100 |
Inverness | 1,600 |
Ipswich | 2,500 |
Isle of Man | 100 |
Jersey | 100 |
Kilmarnock | 1,200 |
Kingston | 700 |
Kirkaldy | 1,900 |
Kirkwall | 200 |
Lancaster | 1,200 |
Leeds | 1,300 |
Leicester | 2,400 |
Lincoln | 2,800 |
Liverpool | 2,100 |
Llandrindod | 300 |
Llandudno | 2,100 |
London | 3,000 |
Luton | 500 |
Manchester | 1,800 |
Medway | 1,900 |
Milton Keynes | 1,300 |
Motherwell | 900 |
Newcastle | 4,400 |
Newport | 1,800 |
Northampton | 2,100 |
Norwich | 2,700 |
Nottingham | 4,300 |
Oldham | 1,000 |
Oxford | 2,200 |
Paisley | 900 |
Perth | 600 |
Peterborough | 4,600 |
Plymouth | 5,000 |
Portsmouth | 7,600 |
Preston | 1,900 |
Reading | 2,700 |
Redhill | 1,500 |
Romford | 600 |
Salisbury | 2,800 |
Sheffield | 3,300 |
Shetland | 100 |
Shrewsbury | 1,500 |
Slough | 600 |
Southall | 400 |
Southampton | 2,700 |
Southend | 1,000 |
St. Albans | 300 |
Stevenage | 1,000 |
Stockport | 1,300 |
Stoke on Trent | 2,000 |
Sunderland | 1,000 |
Sutton | 400 |
Swansea | 2,500 |
Swindon | 3,600 |
Taunton | 1,700 |
Telford | 1,300 |
Tonbridge | 2,000 |
Torquay | 1,400 |
Truro | 1,700 |
Twickenham | 700 |
Wakefield | 1,300 |
Walsall | 900 |
Warrington | 1,900 |
Watford | 300 |
Wigan | 900 |
Wolverhampton | 700 |
Worcester | 1,100 |
York | 2,600 |
Total | 191,700 |