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Source: hansard.parliament.uk (2025-07-08)

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Tom Hayes:To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veteran ID cards have been issued to veterans who were discharged before December 2018, by council area. \p Al Carns: Over 192,000 HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards have been issued to eligible veterans discharged before December 2018. Due to the data collected, it can only be accurately mapped to region and postcode area, rather than council areas.

The tables below include all Veteran Cards posted since January 2024, excluding cards automatically issued to those leaving service after December 2018. The data is rounded to the nearest hundred to allow for:

The Veterans Data Dashboard also provides more robust population data, including by local authorities, using census and other open government data - https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/office.for.veterans.affairs/viz/2024-07-29VeteransDataDashboardv2final/Story1

Posted Veteran Cards by Region

Channel Islands

200

East England

4,600

East Midlands

18,200

East of England

13,000

Greater London

8,300

Isle of Man

100

North East

19,300

North West

22,300

Northern Ireland

3,700

Scotland

16,400

South East

29,900

South West

30,700

Wales

11,300

West Midlands

14,100

Total

192,100

Posted Veteran Cards by Postcode Area

Aberdeen

1,400

Bath

2,600

Belfast

3,700

Birmingham

2,400

Blackburn

1,100

Blackpool

1,300

Bolton

800

Bournemouth

2,200

Bradford

1,000

Brighton

2,000

Bristol

2,500

Bromley

300

Cambridge

900

Canterbury

1,900

Cardiff

3,100

Carlisle

1,300

Chelmsford

1,200

Chester

2,500

Cleveland

2,300

Colchester

1,600

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

100

Coventry

2,000

Crewe

1,100

Croydon

400

Darlington

2,500

Dartford

700

Derby

2,000

Doncaster

3,400

Dorchester

1,700

Dudley

700

Dumfries

600

Dundee

1,100

Durham

1,200

Edinburgh

2,200

Enfield

300

Exeter

2,500

Falkirk

900

Galashiels

500

Glasgow

2,300

Gloucester

3,000

Guernsey

100

Guilford

3,400

Halifax

400

Harrogate

600

Harrow

300

Hemel

1,200

Hereford

1,000

Huddersfield

600

Hull

1,900

Ilford

100

Inverness

1,600

Ipswich

2,500

Isle of Man

100

Jersey

100

Kilmarnock

1,200

Kingston

700

Kirkaldy

1,900

Kirkwall

200

Lancaster

1,200

Leeds

1,300

Leicester

2,400

Lincoln

2,800

Liverpool

2,100

Llandrindod

300

Llandudno

2,100

London

3,000

Luton

500

Manchester

1,800

Medway

1,900

Milton Keynes

1,300

Motherwell

900

Newcastle

4,400

Newport

1,800

Northampton

2,100

Norwich

2,700

Nottingham

4,300

Oldham

1,000

Oxford

2,200

Paisley

900

Perth

600

Peterborough

4,600

Plymouth

5,000

Portsmouth

7,600

Preston

1,900

Reading

2,700

Redhill

1,500

Romford

600

Salisbury

2,800

Sheffield

3,300

Shetland

100

Shrewsbury

1,500

Slough

600

Southall

400

Southampton

2,700

Southend

1,000

St. Albans

300

Stevenage

1,000

Stockport

1,300

Stoke on Trent

2,000

Sunderland

1,000

Sutton

400

Swansea

2,500

Swindon

3,600

Taunton

1,700

Telford

1,300

Tonbridge

2,000

Torquay

1,400

Truro

1,700

Twickenham

700

Wakefield

1,300

Walsall

900

Warrington

1,900

Watford

300

Wigan

900

Wolverhampton

700

Worcester

1,100

York

2,600

Total

191,700