Asked by: Danny Kruger (Conservative - East Wiltshire)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) service and (b) service family accommodation properties there are in East Wiltshire, by property type.
Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
There are 313 permanent Single Living Accommodation Blocks across 17 Ministry of Defence Establishments in East Wiltshire. These consist of 10,577 rooms of which 10,465 are single en-suite and 112 are multi-occupancy with shared ablutions.
There are 4,753 Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties in East Wiltshire, the table below shows the total split by Property Type:
Type | Bedrooms/Rank | SFA Total |
Type 1 | 4+ bedrooms (Officer SFA) | 4 |
Type 2 | 4+ bedrooms (Officer SFA) | 20 |
Type 3 | 4 bedrooms (Officer SFA) | 161 |
Type 4 | 4 bedrooms (Officer SFA) | 304 |
Type 5 | 3 bedrooms (Officer SFA) | 365 |
B Type | 2 bedrooms (Other Rank SFA) | 772 |
C Type | 3 bedrooms (Other Rank SFA) | 2583 |
D Type | 4 bedrooms (Other Rank SFA) | 537 |
DS Type | 4+ bedrooms (Other Rank SFA) | 7 |
Asked by: Danny Kruger (Conservative - East Wiltshire)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which companies have been awarded contracts for the (a) provision, (b) maintenance and (c) refurbishment of service family accommodation properties in East Wiltshire constituency; and if he will publish details of the nature and scope of those contracts.
Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
No contracts have been awarded for the provision of Service Family Accommodation properties in the East Wiltshire constituency as the Ministry of Defence has not purchased any new properties.
VIVO Defence Services under the Regional Accommodation Maintenance Services Contract for the South West have the responsibility for maintenance and refurbishment of Service Family Accommodation properties in the East Wiltshire constituency.
Details on the nature and scope of the contract as awarded can be found in Contracts Finder at the following link:
Asked by: Danny Kruger (Conservative - East Wiltshire)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many homes his Department owns in East Wiltshire constituency; and how many of those (a) have Ministry of Defence tenants, (b) have private tenants and (c) are vacant.
Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
As of 4 July 2025, there are 4,739 Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties in East Wiltshire that are owned by the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
Of the 4,739 SFA properties:
a) 3,717 SFA are occupied by Service families.
b) 317 SFA are sublet to private tenants.
c) 705 SFA are vacant. 307 of these are available to be occupied (177 have been allocated to Service families to move into) and 398 are classed as void unavailable and therefore currently unavailable to be occupied.
The MOD is currently undertaking an extensive review of its entire estate, including how the department will make best use of the properties that have been reacquired from Annington, and which homes and locations can most benefit from investment to be brought back online, refurbished, and renovated for the use of Service families.