To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many war veterans (a) were entitled to receive and (b) received priority treatment in each of the last five years, broken down by strategic health authority. (137549)

All war pensioners, including recipients of Armed Forces Compensation Scheme awards, are entitled to NHS priority treatment for conditions accepted to be due to service subject only to clinical priority. I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 3 May 2007, Official Report, column 1853W, regarding the numbers of war pensioners who receive priority treatment.