Armed Forces: Housing

(asked on 16th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many single living accommodation bed spaces his Department owns as of 16 January 2024; and of those, how many and what proportion are located in the UK.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 25th January 2024

In the UK there are 154,000 single living bedspaces.

There are c.133,000 permanent and temporary bedspaces and a further 21,000 bedspaces in the UK training estate.

81,000 Service personnel occupy permanent Single Living Accommodation (SLA) across all Services meaning that 55.7% of Armed Forces Personnel are accommodated in SLA.

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