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Armed Forces: Housing

Volume 498: debated on Tuesday 27 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 19 October 2009, Official Report, column 1219W, on armed forces: housing, how many units of substitute service accommodation there are in each region. (296194)

The following tables list the number and location of all substitute service family accommodation (SSFA) and substitute service single accommodation (SSSA).

SSFA

Location

Number of properties

Aberdeen

2

Birmingham

109

Bath

22

Blackburn

5

Bradford

1

Bournemouth

29

Bolton

8

Brighton

4

Bromley

1

Bristol

13

Carlisle

4

Cambridge

20

Cardiff

13

Chester

7

Chelmsford

9

Colchester

2

Croydon

3

Canterbury

4

Coventry

24

Crewe

1

Dundee

3

Derby

2

Dumfries

2

Durham

5

Darlington

34

Doncaster

3

Dorchester

29

Dudley

2

London E

3

Exeter

26

Falkirk

11

Glasgow

8

Gloucester

10

Guildford

18

Harrow

17

Huddersfield

2

Harrogate

1

Hemel Hempstead

128

Hereford

96

Hull

9

Halifax

4

Ipswich

9

Kilmarnock

3

Kensington Upon Thames

5

Liverpool

18

Lancaster

14

Llandrindod Wells

2

Leicester

7

Llandudno

12

Leeds

8

Luton

5

Manchester

4

Milton Keynes

10

London N

3

Newcastle

5

Nottingham

55

Newport

9

London NW

5

Oldham

4

Oxford

179

Paisley

2

Peterborough

3

Plymouth

94

Portsmouth

18

Preston

10

Reading

4

Redhill

1

Sheffield

11

Swansea

15

London SE

5

Stevenage

3

Stockport

7

Slough

21

Sutton

1

Swindon

24

Southampton

71

Salisbury

56

Sunderland

2

Southend on Sea

1

Stoke on Trent

4

London SW

12

Shrewsbury

6

Taunton

18

Berwick Upon Tweed

3

Tonbridge

6

Torquay

3

Truro

32

Middlesbrough

17

Twickenham

3

Uxbridge

4

London W

12

Warrington

4

Watford

3

Wakefield

1

Wigan

1

Worcester

5

Walsall

1

Wolverhampton

2

York

25

Shetland Islands

1

Total

1,563

SSSA

Location

Number of properties

Aberdeen

17

Bath

169

Belfast

3

Berwick upon Tweed

2

Birmingham

271

Blackburn

6

Blackpool

60

Bolton

17

Bournemouth

9

Bradford

2

Brighton

19

Bristol

437

Bromley

7

Cambridge

45

Canterbury

31

Cardiff

52

Carlisle

24

Chelmsford

8

Chester

36

Colchester

132

Coventry

30

Crewe

3

Croydon

9

Darlington

87

Dartford

3

Derby

5

Doncaster

8

Dorchester

10

Dudley

2

Dumfries

3

Dundee

29

Durham

4

Edinburgh

69

Enfield

2

Exeter

36

Falkirk

24

Glasgow

235

Gloucester

39

Guildford

168

Halifax

2

Harrow

11

Harrogate

13

Hemel Hempstead

4

Hereford

146

Huddersfield

2

Hull

82

Ilford

6

Inverness

18

Ipswich

87

Kensington Upon Thames

16

Kilmarnock

39

Kirkcaldy

8

Kirkwall

3

Lancaster

151

Llandrindod Wells

34

Leeds

35

Leicester

24

Lincoln

1

Liverpool

72

Llandudno

42

London E

214

London EC

10

London N

32

London NW

64

London SE

180

London SW

470

London W

72

London WC

1

Luton

17

Manchester

43

Medway

5

Middlesbrough

19

Milton Keynes

33

Motherwell

2

Newcastle

92

Newport

46

Northampton

1

Norwich

7

Nottingham

26

Oldham

3

Oxford

28

Paisley

7

Perth

14

Peterborough

9

Plymouth

31

Portsmouth

57

Preston

47

Reading

17

Redhill

10

Romford

6

Salisbury

122

Sheffield

38

Shrewsbury

7

Slough

23

Southampton

26

Southend On Sea

3

Stevenage

6

Stoke on Trent

13

Stockport

4

Sunderland

4

Sutton

2

Swansea

18

Swindon

86

Taunton

14

Telford

8

Tonbridge

47

Torquay

2

Truro

16

Twickenham

63

Uxbridge

1

Wakefield

15

Walsall

7

Warrington

23

Watford

5

Wigan

3

Wolverhampton

4

Worcester

7

York

61

Total

5,100

The SSFA/SSSA figures represent a snapshot of properties held. The total number of SSFA and SSSA held fluctuates from day to day as leases are terminated or taken on.