Armed Forces: Housing

(asked on 17th November 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Single Living Accommodation units and (b) Service Family Accommodation homes in (i) north Shropshire and (ii) Shropshire have recorded (A) defective fire alarms, (B) missing fire doors and (C) non-compliance with modern fire safety standards in each year since 2015.


Answered by
Luke Pollard Portrait
Luke Pollard
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 25th November 2025

The tables below show reported (A) defective fire alarms and (B) missing fire doors in Single Living Accommodation (SLA) across Shropshire and North Shropshire, as at 18 November 2025. Data prior to 1 April 2018 is not held.

Shropshire

Year

Defective Fire Alarms

Missing Fire Doors

2018

106

9

2019

117

23

2020

112

13

2021

69

13

2022

141

0

2023

151

2

2024

89

11

2025

114

5

North Shropshire

Year

Defective Fire Alarms

Missing Fire Doors

2018

32

0

2019

30

1

2020

16

0

2021

12

0

2022

15

0

2023

26

0

2024

20

2

2025

15

0

Information on (C) compliance with modern fire safety standards is not held. This is because all SLA buildings are complaint with standards in place at the time of their construction.

(b) Service Family Accommodation

Service Family Accommodation in Shropshire and North Shropshire does not include flats, communal spaces, or Houses in Multiple Occupation. Therefore, homes in this area are not subject to the Fire Safety Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and fire doors and alarms are not required. However, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation must ensure smoke and carbon monoxide alarms are installed and maintained.

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