Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Chris Elmore and Helen Morgan

Monday 20th November 2023 Commons Chamber

[Chris Elmore (Ogmore) (Lab)]

3. What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of service accommodation for armed forces personnel.

[Helen Morgan (North Shropshire) (LD)]

8. What steps he is taking to improve service accommodation for armed forces personnel.

[The Minister for Defence Procurement (James Cartlidge)]

Currently, 96.5% of the service family accommodation meets or exceeds the Government’s decent homes standard; only those properties should be allocated to service families. The Government continue to invest significant sums to improve the quality of UK service family accommodation. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation received an investment of £400 million over this financial year and the next as part of the defence Command Paper refresh, meaning that the forecast £380.2 million for this year is more than double last year’s investment in maintenance and improvements.