Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) service personnel and (b) veterans making injury claims have been put under surveillance to observe the extent of their injuries since 2003.

Surveillance is not undertaken in regard to Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, which is a no-fault scheme which provides compensation for injury or death caused by service on or after 6 April 2005, the same applies to the War Pension Scheme which covers injury and death caused by service prior to that date. However, in the case of civil injury claims, since 2003 surveillance has been undertaken on claims brought by military and civilian personnel on 386 occasions.