Armed Forces: Housing

(asked on 19th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of Service Family Accommodation maintained by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation has been graded at grade (a) 1, (b) 2, (c) 3 and (d) 4 and below in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Alex Chalk
This question was answered on 27th October 2022

All Service Family Accommodation (SFA) allocated to Service families in the UK meets the Government’s Decent Homes Standard as a minimum. Homes below this standard are not allocated to Service personnel and their families.

The following table shows the Decent Home Standard applied to the MOD’s SFA stock over the last five years:

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

Decent Homes +

87.88%

87.74%

87.33%

86.40%

84.88%

Decent Homes

8.31%

9.11%

9.65%

10.61%

10.54%

Decent Homes -

2.70%

2.21%

2.16%

2.24%

3.79%

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