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Armed Forces: Housing

Volume 504: debated on Wednesday 27 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what percentage of overseas (a) single living accommodation and (b) service family accommodation units are in each grade in each country. (312657)

Single living accommodation (SLA) is graded by its scale (this consists of a number of factors including size and amount of storage) as well as physical condition. The best available data indicate that as at October 2009, the following number and percentage of overseas SLA bed-spaces were at the each grade:

Grade 1Grade 2Grade 3Grade 4

Country

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

Germany

2,146

16

1,137

8

3,553

26

6,773

50

Cyprus

60

3

247

14

1,460

83

Gibraltar

249

81

60

19

South Atlantic Islands

2

2,374

100

Rest of world

70

8

13

1

60

7

736

84

UK (as at December 2008)1

34,933

25

19,498

14

22,101

16

60,745

45

1 The UK SLA figures, included for comparison purposes, are for the number of bed-spaces at each ‘condition grade’ rather than ‘Grade for Charge’.

Service family accommodation (SFA) is assessed for standard for condition (SfC), a measure of the physical condition of a property. The best available data indicate that as at October 2009, the following number and percentage of overseas SFA properties were at each SfC:

S1fCS2fCS3fCS4fC

Country

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

Germany

3,766

33

2,948

26

3,590

31

1,146

10

Cyprus

224

10

410

19

50

2

1,503

69

Gibraltar

163

37

24

5

70

16

184

42

South Atlantic Islands

15

16

22

23

49

50

11

11

Rest of world

222

19

526

46

393

34

4

1

UK (as at December 2009)

12,718

38

19,689

59

1,034

3

204

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