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1054851

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date	04/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Gurkhas: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to increase the pension for former Gurkha soldiers; and if will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Aldershot
tabling member printed	Leo Docherty
uin	216435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that Gurkha veterans continue to receive a fair pension which provides for a good standard of living in Nepal. Gurkha pensions are currently increased in two ways. The first is through an annual increase based on the rate of inflation set by the Nepali Central Bank each year. The second is following a review of the outcome of the 10 yearly Indian Central Pay Commission to determine whether changes made to Indian pension rates, which Gurkha pension rates are currently based on, require increases to be made to British Gurkha Pension rates. The latest review is nearly complete and we expect to announce the outcome in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 12/02/2019 17:26:41 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty

937834

registered interest
date	10/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Gurkhas: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the pension actuarially of Gurkha's who transferred to the Armed Forces Pension Scheme is 23 to 36 per cent for service that took place prior to 1st July 1997.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	162534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>To be eligible for the Gurkha Offer to Transfer (GOTT) in 2007/8, a Gurkha had to have served in the Army on or after 1 July 1997.</p><p>The service credits applied under the GOTT to service pre-July 1997 were based on actuarial assumptions calculated by the Government Actuary's Department and accepted by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). This is normal practice across the public services for those transferring between pension schemes.</p><p>The assumptions took into account differences in benefit structures between the Gurkha Pension Scheme and the Armed Forces Pension Scheme, including age on joining, length of service and mortality rates.</p><p>Legal challenges to the terms of the GOTT, up to the European Court of Human Rights, were rejected, with MOD's view that the transfer terms were fair and reasonable being upheld.</p><p>No pension value was removed from any Gurkha as a result of the GOTT.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 17/07/2018 15:16:20 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

484306

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Gurkhas: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on reaching a settlement with Gurkha soldiers who retired before 2000.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	32156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government and the people of the United Kingdom hold the Gurkhas in the highest esteem and have done so throughout their 200 years of service to the Crown. Successive Governments have taken steps to ensure that the service provided by Gurkhas is appropriately recognised and reflects the terms and nature of that service, including in relation to pensions.</p><p>These sentiments were most recently confirmed in the previous Coalition Government's response to the All Party Parliamentary Group report on historic Gurkha grievances and the statement made by my hon. Friend the former Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans (Ms Soubry) on 29 January 2015 HCWS234.</p><p>This reaffirmed successive Governments' long standing approach to public sector pension provisions which is that an individual qualifies for a pension according to the rules of that scheme at the time, and that improvements to public sector pension or compensation schemes should not be introduced retrospectively because of the burden such an approach would place on the Exchequer.</p> answering member constituency Canterbury answering member printed Mr Julian Brazier question first answered 30/03/2016 15:18:50 answering member 77 label Biography information for Sir Julian Brazier attachment 1 file name 20150129_WMS_Government_Response_to_APPG_on_Gurkha_Welfare[1].docx title 20150115 Hansard extract on Gurkha Welfare
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

100348

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Gurkhas: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the number of former Gurkhas who left service on or after 1 July 1997 and transferred to Armed Forces Pension Scheme who are receiving less benefit than if they had remained in the Gurkha Pension Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	211427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 04/11/2014 17:31:58 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 24595 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg