Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 182741

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme

Tabled: 25 April 2023

Answered: 2 May 2023

Named Day

Question

Rachel Hopkins

Labour — Luton South and South Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department provided for the operation of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme in each year since 2019.

Answer

Dr Andrew Murrison

Although an estimate is made at the beginning of each year of the likely expenditure on Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Payments, there is no annual cap or allocation of funding. The table below shows the total Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Expenditure by financial year 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2023.

Year	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23 ^{note 1}
Total Compensation Payable (£'000,000)	90	84.3	104	127.9
Lump Sum Payments	38.7	30	38.6	49.3
Guaranteed Income Payments	41.2	44.6	55.2	67.2
Survivors' Guaranteed Income Payments	10.1	9.6	10.2	11.4

Note:

2022-23 accounts pending audit and may change in the future.