Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the quality of housing accommodation for armed forces personnel.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) fully recognises that the provision of safe, good quality and well-maintained accommodation is essential to treating our people properly and as well as to operational output it remains one of the MOD’s top priorities.

In the last seven years, MOD has invested more than £936 million in Service Family Accommodation (SFA) improvements and currently more than 98% of SFA meet or exceed the Government’s Decent Homes Standard. However, we are looking to go further and the 2022-23 improvement programme is based on a funding level of £176 million which will also improve the thermal efficiency of homes.