Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2022 to Question 33685 on Armed Forces: Housing, whether the average costs to his Department of supplying energy to each type of Service Family Accommodation are assessed to be higher, lower or broadly the same as the average costs incurred by service personnel living in equivalent accommodation and buying their energy direct from private sector suppliers.

The average costs to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) of supplying energy to each type of Service Family Accommodation on the MOD network, are assessed to be lower than the average costs incurred by Service personnel who buy their energy direct from private sector suppliers.