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Written Question
Armed Forces: Housing
Monday 16th March 2026

Asked by: Michael Payne (Labour - Gedling)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve military housing.

Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

The last government had 14 years to fix Defence family housing and failed, delivering instead record low levels of satisfaction.

We reversed the disastrous privatisation of military housing.

And our landmark £9 billion housing strategy will renew or repair 9 in 10 homes and we are legislating to create a new Defence Housing Service which will put the interests of service personnel first.

We have already rapidly improved military homes transforming 1,000 of the worst homes – ahead of schedule.

Labour has delivered more in eighteen months than the party opposite managed in fourteen years.


Written Question
Veterans: Gedling
Wednesday 31st July 2024

Asked by: Michael Payne (Labour - Gedling)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he plans to take to support veterans in Gedling constituency.

Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)

This is a Government of service that will always stand up for those who serve our country, across the whole of the UK. I am working across Government and with civil society to ensure veterans, including those in Gedling, get access to the health, housing, employment and other support they need, and looking at the best way to deliver this support.