Defence and armed forces
Services
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Financial help if you're disabled
Financial help if you're disabled - benefits, housing costs, council tax, vehicle tax exemption, TV Licence, motability schemes, VAT relief
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Get a copy of military service records
Get military service records for the army, Royal Navy, Royal Marines or RAF from 1920 - who can apply, how long it takes, cost, how to apply
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Right to reside
Who has the right to reside in the UK - if you're from the Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands, Isle of Man or the EEA or Switzerland.
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Estimate your armed forces pension
Estimate your armed forces pension - get a forecast of your armed forces pension, apply online or by post
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Apply for a veterans badge or a medal
How to apply for a medal or veterans badge - who can apply, application forms, contact details, how long it takes, replacement military medals or badges
Guidance and regulation
- Armed forces pensions
- Medals: campaigns, descriptions and eligibility
- Veterans UK Armed Forces Pensions forms
- Prevent duty guidance
- Military low flying: RAF operational low flying training timetable
News and communications
- Offshore Windfarm development boosted by £2 million research
- Finalists for International Space Pitch Day revealed
- John Conteh MBE congratulates veterans on completion of Boxing Through Barriers programme
- Ministry of Defence Police clamp down on illegal activity and keep the training estate safe in the south east
Research and statistics
- Forces Help to Buy Scheme quarterly statistics: 2020/21
- Forces Help to Buy Scheme quarterly statistics: background quality report
- MOD statistics pre-release access list
- Number of COVID-19 tests in defence and positive cases in the UK Armed Forces 2020
- MOD National and Official Statistics by topic
Policy papers and consultations
- Armed Forces Personnel and Veterans serving in operations outside the United Kingdom
- RAF Halton
- UK-Vietnam strategic partnership: forging ahead for another 10 years
- UK paper on the Approach to Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
- Information for British Nuclear Test Veterans
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Military court centres court listings
- Service Inquiry into the death of a soldier following an animal attack at Liwonde National Park, Malawi on 5 May 2019
- FOI responses released by MOD: week commencing 26 October 2020
- MOD non-consolidated performance related pay 2018 to 2019
- MOD: senior officials' business expenses, hospitality and meetings, January to December 2020
Organisations
- Military Aviation Authority
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Defence Infrastructure Organisation
- Defence Equipment and Support
- Veterans UK
- Single Source Regulations Office
- Export Control Joint Unit
- Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees
- Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Associations (RFCA)
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Strategic Command
- jHub Defence Innovation
- Department for International Trade Defence & Security Organisation
- Environment Agency
- Innovate UK
- National Counter Terrorism Security Office
- Ofsted
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- UK Space Agency
Explore sub-topics
- Armed Forces Covenant
- Armed forces
- Armed forces and Ministry of Defence reform
- Armed forces support for activities in the UK
- International defence commitments
- Military awards and commemorations
- Military equipment, logistics and technology
- Military recruitment, training and operations
- Ministry of Defence estate
- Nuclear disarmament
- Stability in the Western Balkans
- Support services for military and defence personnel and their families
- Support services for veterans and their families
- UK nuclear deterrent
- Weapons proliferation