War Widows: Pensions

(asked on 18th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people received a war widows pension in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 26th July 2017

The numbers of people in receipt of a War Widow(er)s pension in the years requested are provided below.

31 March 2014

22,446

31 March 2015

20,533

31 March 2016

18,950

31 March 2017

17,311

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