Armed Forces: Housing

(asked on 22nd October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are currently living in Single Living Accommodation, and what that figure has been in each of the last ten years.


Answered by
Calvin Bailey Portrait
Calvin Bailey
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
This question was answered on 30th October 2026

As at 23 October 2026, 82,157 Service personnel were recorded as occupying permanent Single Living Accommodation (SLA).

The equivalent point-in-time figures as at 23 October for each of the previous ten calendar years, together with the number of Service personnel recorded as occupying SLA at any point during the respective calendar year, are shown below.

Year

As at 23 October

Full Calendar Year

2016

81,218

101,067

2017

80,650

99,642

2018

78,303

97,163

2019

80,450

99,933

2020

82,305

101,368

2021

84,881

103,613

2022

81,888

101,980

2023

79,461

97,457

2024

77,582

96,217

2025

80,003

96,976

Reticulating Splines