Armed Forces: Housing
(asked on 14th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide details of the (a) locations of all the high rise buildings housing armed forces personnel and (b) proportion of flammable cladding attached to each of those buildings.
The locations of the 38 high rise buildings, which currently house Armed Forces personnel, can be found in the table below. Of the 38, 26 of these have combustible components in their external wall system. The table below shows the approximate amount of combustible element in the external wall system as a percentage of the overall wall area:
Location | No of blocks | Approximate amount of combustible element in the external wall system |
HMNB Clyde | 22 | 17 = 20% 5 =15% |
HMS Drake | 2 | 1 = 15% 1 = 0% |
Glenart Castle, Longbridge | 1 | 95% |
HMS Nelson | 3 | 1 = 90% 2 = 0% |
Hyde Park Bks | 2 | 1 = 0% 1 = 5% |
Edinburgh Castle | 1 | 0% |
Kensington and Chelsea | 1 | 0% |
Westminster | 2 | 0% |
Belgravia | 1 | 0% |
Wellington Bks | 3 | 0% |
All buildings have a current Fire Risk Assessment in place and remain legally compliant for continued occupation.