Armed Forces: Housing
(asked on 3rd May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the anual budget is for (a) maintaining and (b) upgrading military accommodation; and what that budget was in each of the last 10 years.
In the last seven years, the Ministry of Defence has invested more than £936 million in Service Family Accommodation (SFA) improvements. During financial year (FY) 2021-22, c£179 million (including £36 million of Government Fiscal Stimulus funding) was invested to improve the quality of SFA. The 2022-23 improvement programme was based on a funding level of £185 million.
The expenditure for each of the last 10 years is shown below:
£million | FY 2013-14 | FY 2014-15 | FY 2015-16 | FY 2016-17 | FY 2017-18 | FY 2018-19 | FY 2019-20 | FY 2020-21 | FY 2021-22 | FY 2022-23 |
Core (Maintenance) | 101.893 | 115.154 | 82.649 | 73.997 | 82.108 | 80.084 | 88.535 | 122.501 | 137.828 | 103.437 |
Additional Works (Upgrades) | 106.636 | 74.455 | 66.788 | 87.747 | 82.424 | 115.580 | 123.437 | 152.824 | 179.265 | 185.448 |
In addition to the above the following was spent on Capital Purchases (new builds):
£million | FY 2013-14 | FY 2014-15 | FY 2015-16 | FY 2016-17 | FY 2017-18 | FY 2018-19 | FY 2019-20 | FY 2020-21 | FY 2021-22 | FY 2022-23 |
Capital Purchases | 116.103 | 39.634 | 19.804 | 11.031 | 0.690 | 27.547 | 42.830 | 30.965 | 75.412 | 143.448 |