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) Legionella, (B) unsafe water temperatures, (C) failed water hygiene checks and (D) all of the above 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 give the number of reports of (A) Legionella 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

Legionella

2018

1

2019

10

2020

20

2021

58

2022

334

2023

505

2024

441

2025

333

North Shropshire

Year

Legionella

2018

1

2019

0

2020

4

2021

3

2022

231

2023

319

2024

215

2025

183

For SLA, information on the number of reports of (B) unsafe water temperatures and (C) failed hygiene checks can only be provided at disproportionate cost.

For Service Family Accommodation, no (A) Legionella incidents, (B) unsafe water temperatures, or (C) failed water hygiene checks have occurred in Shropshire or North Shropshire since April 2022. Data prior to April 2022 is not held. Data prior to April 2022 is not held as the Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) contract started in 2022, hence why data starts from April 2022.

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