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Written question asked by Bradley Thomas (Conservative) on Wednesday, 5 February 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 10 February 2025. It was answered by Al Carns (Labour) on Tuesday, 11 February 2025 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.


Veterans: Identity Cards

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who will use a digital veteran card.

Answer

Based on census data and other sources, there are currently around two million Veterans, all of whom will be able to apply for a Virtual Veterans Card.

The Veterans Data Dashboard is publicly available at the following link:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/office.for.veterans.affairs/viz/2024-07-29VeteransDataDashboardv2final/Story1


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
29135
Session
2024-26
Transferred
Yes
Subjects
Identity cards Veterans
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk