Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2022 to Question 111519 on Armed Forces: Housing, for what reason the Regional Accommodation Maintenance Service contract for Northern and Central regions does not record information on the number of investigations into (a) damp and (b) mould.

The Regional Accommodation Maintenance Service contractor for Northern and Central regions does record information on the number of investigations into (a) damp and (b) mould. However, the Answer of 20 December 2022 to Question 111519, stated that Amey do not record that information in the format requested and that to provide it in that format would involve disproportionate cost. However, since 20 December, Amey have gathered this information from their suppliers in a one-off exercise. Since the Future Defence Infrastructure Services contracts came into service on 1 April 2022, of the 1,628 tasks raised under the damp and mould task category, 404 have been issued under instruction to a Damp and Mould surveyor and 77 of these have been returned. The Department continues to work with its Regional Accommodation Maintenance Services contractors to refine and standardise the way in which data is collected and analysed.