To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the administrative cost has been of running the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pensions scheme in each year from 2005.
Answered on
2 February 2022
The information is not held.
Some of the administrative cost of running the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pension scheme forms part of the Defence Business Services (DBS) budget allocated to the provision of veterans' services. I refer the hon. member to my previous answer to Question 105354 which provided the annual budget for Veterans Services.
Other administrative costs such as infrastructure and information technology come from other DBS budgets.
To attempt to allocate administrative costs to the running of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pensions scheme would be potentially misleading and could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.