Armed Forces: Housing

(asked on 19th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2023 to Question 6086 on Armed Forces: Housing, what the grades are of each of the 9,121 unoccupied service family accommodation units.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 9th January 2024

The Ministry of Defence does not use a grading system for Service Family Accommodation (SFA). SFA are assessed against the Government’s Decent Homes (DH) Standard, defined by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and this is the minimum satisfactory standard for allocation of a home to a Service family.

As of 1 December 2023, 96.11% of SFA was assessed as meeting or exceeding DH Standard. Any homes below this standard should not be allocated to families.

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