Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2020 to Question 70308 on Ministry of Defence: Employers' Liability, what the total amount of compensation paid out by his Department was for the (a) 125 claims brought between three and six years of the date of incident and (b) 70 claims brought more than six years after the date of incident.

Of the 125 claims brought between three and six years of the date of the incident, 23 of these claims are still open. Of the 102 cases that have been closed, 54 have been settled in favour of the claimant. I can confirm that a total of £8.57 million has been paid in compensation by the Ministry of Defence in relation to these 54 claims.

Of the 70 claims brought more than six years after the date of the incident, 27 of these claims are still open. Of the 43 cases that have been closed, 14 have been settled in favour of the claimant. I can confirm that a total of £2.47million has been paid in compensation by the Ministry of Defence in relation to these 14 claims.