Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2022 to Question 110586 on Armed Forces: Housing, how many compensation payments have been made to armed forces personnel and their families for issues relating to service family accommodation in each year since 2010.

Under the Future Defence Infrastructure Services contracts, 5,947 compensation payments (in the form of vouchers) have been made since the 1 April 2022 for issues relating to Service Family Accommodation.

These compensation payments are administered and funded by the suppliers at no cost to the Ministry of Defence.

Under the previous National Housing Prime contracts, both the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and Amey paid compensation to Armed Forces Personnel and their families.

DIO made 13,279 compensation payments between April 2017 and April 2022 for issues relating to Service Family Accommodation.

Data is not held prior to 2017 as the DIO compensation scheme began in April 2017.