Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have moved into (a) service family accommodation and (b) single living accommodation with non-habitable failures, in each year since 2015.

The Department's policy is that no Service family should be moved into Service Family Accommodation (SFA) with non-habitable failures.

If, at the scheduled Move in, any SFA is deemed to be non-habitable, the family should either be moved to temporary accommodation (eg a hotel); or into alternative permanent SFA if the fault cannot be rectified quickly.

The Minstry of Defence is aware of one case in 2021 where a Service family was exceptionally and incorrectly moved into an SFA with non-habitable faults at Move-In. The family were immediately moved into temporary accommodation and then into an alternative, permanent SFA, as soon as the mistake was identified. There are no other recorded such instances.

The Department does not record this information for Single Living Accommodation, in the format requested. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.