Veterans UK: Complaints

(asked on 20th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many complaints submitted to Veterans UK have been transferred to the (a) Head and (b) Assistant Head of Veterans UK in each year in the last five years.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 25th April 2022

The total number of complaints submitted to Veterans UK Customer Resolution Team (CRT) for each financial year is detailed in the table below:

Financial Year

Number of Complaints

2017-18

347

2018-19

332

2019-20

341

2020-21

174

2021-22

201

For the financial year 2021-22, a total of 201 complaints were received by the CRT.

119 were resolved at the first stage of the complaint resolution process.

42 were resolved at the second stage by the Head of CRT (previously known as an Assistant Head of Veterans UK).

40 were escalated to the Head of Veterans UK.

A breakdown of data prior to 2021 is not held.

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