HC Deb 26 March 1984 vol 57 c91W
Mr. Steel

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will seek to end the discrimination between service disablement allowances pre and post-1973.

Mr. Lee

No; cost considerations alone rule out any possibility of giving retrospective effect to the improvement introduced from 31 March 1973 for those invalided from the armed forces for reasons attributable to their service.