§ Mr. Spenceasked the Minister of State for Defence if he will publish the current rates of compensation payable to troops injured while on active service in Northern Ireland and the current rates of compensation paid to dependants of troops killed on active service there.
§ Mr. BuckThe current rates of benefit under the Armed Forces occupational pension scheme for regular Service personnel who are invalided, and for the widows and dependent children of those who die in service, as a result of injuries due to service, are assessed on the basis which my right hon. Friend announced on 2nd May. These rates apply regardless of length of service or the place where the injury was suffered, but they vary according to rank and, in the case of men invalided from the Service, according to the degree of disability. Pensions payable by the Ministry of Defence Are in addition to those payable under the war pensions instruments administered by the Department of Health and Social Security.—[Vol. 855, c.317–18.]