The financial allocation for Defence Estate's Housing Directorate (formerly the Defence Housing Executive), which covers the costs of the provision of houses to Service families in Great Britain net of contributions by personnel, but excluding overheads, is as follows:
£ million 2006-07 1240 2007-08 2261 1 Actual expenditure. 2 Forecast.
The budget for 2008-09 is still being finalised as part of the Department's current planning.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces gave on 12 November 2007, Official Report, columns 49-50W, to the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox).