Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cases of compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder have been awarded by his Department to armed forces personnel under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme to date.

It is not possible to reliably determine awards made specifically for PTSD, as individuals who claimed for PTSD may have been awarded compensation for a range of mental illnesses. However, from the electronic records available it has been determined that as at 31 March 2020 some 3,739 awards had been made for PTSD under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) between 06 April 2005 and 31 March 2020.

Defence Statistics publish annual National Statistics on the AFCS. The most recent update was published in June 2020 (as at 31 March 2020) on the Gov.UK website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-index