Armed Forces: Housing

Baroness Sharples Excerpts

Wednesday 14th December 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Wallace of Saltaire]

My Lords, I do not agree with that. Under the previous Government’s programme, the target for 2020 was for all service families’ accommodation to be at standard 1 level. I think they were confident that they would hit that target. As the noble Lord knows, we have now had to put into the advance budget of the MoD a pause in major upgrades for three years from 2013, which may make the 2020 target hard to hit. Minor upgrades, however, will continue. The vast majority of service accommodation will continue to be of a very high level.

[Baroness Sharples]

Will my noble friend tell us whether Wellington barracks, which I have visited twice in recent years, has now been brought up to scratch?

[Lord Wallace of Saltaire]

My Lords, I do not have that information. I promise to write to the noble Baroness.