Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of officers applying for transitional protection for their properties when the new accommodation offer is introduced.

The New Accommodation Offer does not remove the entitlement to Service Family Accommodation from any Service personnel and expands it to a far wider cohort than is currently eligible. We estimate the number of Officers that will be eligible for transitional protection is around 15,000 of which around 7,000 are currently in Service Family Accommodation.