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Armed Forces: Housing

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what percentage of (a) single living and (b) service family accommodation units (i) in the UK and (ii) overseas there are in each of the four condition grades. (182314)

All service families accommodation (SFA) and single living accommodation (SLA) is assessed by Grade for Charge (GfC) and most SFA is also assessed by Standard for Condition (SfC). Where SfC is a detailed measure of the physical condition of SFA, GfC is an assessment of both the physical condition of the accommodation and other factors such as location and closeness to amenities.

Currently, SFA that is measured by SfC is at the following condition:

S1fC

Percentage

S2fC

Percentage

S3fC

Percentage

S4fC

Percentage

United Kingdom

28,103

59

17,741

37

2,105

4

120

0

Overseas

3,808

24

4,482

28

5,319

34

2,221

14

SLA is at the following grade:

Grade 1

Percentage

Grade 2

Percentage

Grade 3

Percentage

Grade 4

Percentage

United Kingdom

34,668

25

17,398

13

23,346

17

62,212

45

Overseas

3,516

13

1,594

6

4,848

17

17,990

64

Over the next decade the MOD will spend over £8 billion on accommodation, including some £3.1 billion on bringing accommodation up to the top condition. This will include the delivery of some 30,000 new or improved SLA bed-spaces by 2013 and 600 upgraded SFA properties this year, 600 next year and 800 each year thereafter.