HC Deb 16 March 1989 vol 149 c275W
Mr. Fraser

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the annual expenditure by his Department on providing rehabilitation services for service men who are seriously injured and discharged from the services on medical grounds.

Mr. Neubert

Information on the cost of service rehabilitation facilities is not available in the specific detail requested.

Mr. Fraser

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will institute counselling and other services of assistance for service men who are discharged as medically unfit from the services within three months of the date of the medical board recommendation to that effect.

Mr. Neubert

A full range of counselling and other services of assistance are already available, as a matter of routine, for service men who are discharged as medically unfit from the services.

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