Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the civil claims filed against his Department, under employers' liability, by serving armed forces personnel, veterans and their families were issued after (a) three and (b) six years when calculated from either the date of the alleged incident, or the date of knowledge of the incident, which ever is later, since 2003.

Data has been provided for Employer's Liability claims brought by current and former service personnel and their families since 1 May 2007 where a date of incident has been recorded and the country of incident has been recorded as either Iraq or Afghanistan. Date of knowledge is not recorded on the claims management systems. 522 civil claims have been identified and of these I can confirm that a) 357 were brought within three years of the date of incident b) 125 were brought between three and six years of the date of incident and c) 70 were brought more than six years after the date of incident. The data is held in a number of case management systems each recording data in a different way and it is not possible to answer the question put which asks about Employer's liability in general without exceeding the costs limit.