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War Pensions Scheme statistics: index

Statistics on the recipients of war pensions, new claims, awards and appeals made under the War Pensions Scheme (WPS).

From:
Ministry of Defence
Published
6 March 2014
Last updated
2 July 2026 — See all updates

From 25/26 onwards, the War Pension Scheme Statistic will no longer be accredited. It will continue as an Official Statistic and remain to comply with the Code of Practice.

Official statistics comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. Official statistics can be broadly interpreted to mean that the statistics. Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). The latest review of this publication by the Office for Statistics Regulation was published on 1st July 2026 and coincided with the MOD taking the decision to de-accredit this publication, which is detailed further at . Further details will be published in the 2026 Background Quality Report.

For the production of the 2026 War Pensions Scheme statistics information on War Pension Scheme claim clearance times has been presented as a median average with an inter-quartile range, rather than a mean average, minimum and maximum as these statistics were affected less by outliers. Further details will be published in the 2026 Background Quality Report

Upcoming release dates for this publication are available here.

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Updates to this page

Published 6 March 2014
Last updated 2 July 2026 Show all updates

  1. Added 'War Pensions Scheme Statistics: 2026'.

  2. Added: 'War Pensions Scheme Statistics: 2025'.

  3. Added information on the expansion of recipient location information published in Table 13 from the 2025 edition.

  4. Added notice on methodology changes in the 2025 War Pensions Scheme Statistics.

  5. Added 'War Pensions Scheme Statistics: 2024'.

  6. Added 'War Pensions Scheme Statistics: 2023'.

  7. Added: 'War Pensions Scheme Statistics: 2022'.

  8. Addition of: War Pensions Scheme statistics for 2021.

  9. Addition of, War Pensions Scheme statistics: 2020.

  10. Added the War Pensions Scheme statistics: 2019.

  11. Added War Pensions scheme statistics: 2018.

  12. Updated to add 2017 statistics.

  13. Added War Pensions Scheme statistics: 2016

  14. Included a sentence with link for upcoming release dates.

  15. Added War Pensions Scheme statistics: 2015.

  16. Added War Pensions Scheme statistics 2014.

  17. First published.

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