Armed Forces: Housing Dr. Fox 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. Mr. Kevan Jones 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |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: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |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 |Less than 1| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------