Military Bases: Repairs and Maintenance
(asked on 5th February 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of maintenance of military and defence bases in each year since 2015.
The maintenance costs for Ministry of Defence (MOD) bases in the UK and Overseas dating back to Financial Year 2018-19 is shown in the tables below (rounded to one decimal place).
Defence Infrastructure Organisation
FY2018-19 | FY2019-20 | FY2020-21 | FY2021-22 | FY2022-23 |
£497.2 million | £576 million | £634.3 million | £689.4 million | £706.4 million |
Navy
FY2018-19 | FY2019-20 | FY2020-21 | FY2021-22 | FY2022-23 |
£67.4 million | £68 million | £59 million | £61.6 million | £71.1 million |
Army
FY2018-19 | FY2019-20 | FY2020-21 | FY2021-22 | FY2022-23 |
£5.5 million | £6.4 million | £6.7 million | £4.4 million | £4.8 million |
Defence Equipment & Support
FY2018-19 | FY2019-20 | FY2020-21 | FY2021-22 | FY2022-23 |
£10.8 million | £8.9 million | £10.1 million | £16.9 million | £15 million |
Strategic Command
FY2018-19 | FY2019-20 | FY2020-21 | FY2021-22 | FY2022-23 |
£3.1 million | £4.1 million | £2.3 million | £0.3 million | £0.4 million |
Maintenance on the majority of MOD bases is carried out under contracts managed by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation. However, a proportion of bases are managed by other individual areas of the MOD and are detailed separately in corresponding tables above.
Maintenance cost data prior to Financial Year 2018-19 is not held because IT systems and contracts were not configured to capture data in this way.