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	date	05/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	War Widow(er)s: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many war widows had their war pensions wrongly classed as taxable income in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and how many times his Department has been asked to rectify their records accordingly in this time period.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
	uin	197882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>I can confirm that the War Widow Pension has not been taxable since 1979 as per Section 639 of the Income Tax (earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.</p><p>Any tax wrongly applied to the payment would be as a result of a tax code provided by HMRC, which is responsible for correcting any tax records.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 19/09/2023 14:37:06 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

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	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	War Widow(er)s: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral contribution of 15 March 2021 by the then Minister for Defence People and Veterans, Official Report, column 22, what steps he has taken to examine all possibilities to resolve historic issues relating to war widows’ pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	102766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises the unique commitment that service families make and remains sympathetic to the circumstances of those who remarried and cohabited before 1 April 2015. Successive Governments have had a policy against retrospective reinstatement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As previously stated by the Defence Secretary in the House, the Department is examining alternative methods to see whether we can mitigate the impact of these changes. We have consulted the Chair of the War Widows Association and HM Treasury.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 08/12/2022 14:52:47 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey