Armed Forces Pay

Part of Opposition Day - [4TH Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 1:19 pm on 1 November 2017.

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Photo of Mark Lancaster Mark Lancaster The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence 1:19, 1 November 2017

I am a very agreeable chap, but this is yet more speculation from The Times. No decision at all has been made to scrap the operational allowance. Every year since the operational allowance was introduced 12 years ago, there has been a review of where it should and should not apply. Soldiers have not been told that they will not receive it when they go to Iraq. I am deeply proud that this Government have doubled the operational allowance from £14 to £29. Finally—to get the last word, for the time being at least, with Mr Jones—none of those figures takes into account the substantial rise in the personal tax allowance introduced while this Government have been in power.