Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 13 November 2023 on Service Family Accommodation and Winter Planning, HCWS28, how much funding the Defence Infrastructure Organisation has allocated to carry out extensive, high quality refurbishments of long-term empty service family accommodation as of 8 January 2024.

The Department allocated £400 million additional funding over this financial year (FY) and next for Service Family Accommodation (SFA); £220 million for FY2023-24 and £180 million for FY 2024-25. The £220 million for this financial year was received at the end of July 2023 and since then the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has been working at pace to instruct works to improve SFA.

This financial year, £58 million has been allocated to fund a nationwide programme of high-quality refurbishment works to bring circa 1000 homes back online, that are currently unavailable for allocation due to their condition and in areas where need is greatest for Service families.

The majority of this work has been instructed and the refurbishment programme is well underway. It is planned that most of the works will be complete by the end of this financial year.