Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2023 to Question 146784 on Armed Forces: Housing, what the figures are for (a) February and (b) March 2023.

The table below shows the number of compensation payments made for issues relating to Service Family Accommodation and their total value for February and March 2023.

The increase in March was due to Pinnacle’s efforts to reduce the backlog in processing compensation claims.

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

There are different levels of compensation, although there were more claims in March, there were more lower levels of compensation paid.