PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Armed Forces: Loans and Personal Savings (12 November 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) service personnel and (b) veterans have received payroll and pension deductions for the purposes of savings and loans in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat)

The table below shows the number of Service personnel and veterans who have deductions from payroll or pensions for savings and loans through the Armed Forces Credit Union since November 2015, when it became possible to do so. The facility for veterans to have deductions taken from pension payments has only been available since 2016.

	2015	2016	2017	2018
Service personnel	240	1,220	3,120	4,590
Veterans	N/A	4	9	9
Yearly Total	240	1,224	3,129	4,599

Please note the 2018 data is provided up to 31 October 2018, and individuals may have deductions taken in more than one year.

Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
20 November 2018