Armed Forces: Housing
(asked on 3rd July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide a breakdown of the average cost of energy bills for Service Family Accommodation properties for families who live in homes on (a) an MOD fuel supply and (b) the Fuel Subsidy Scheme in each of the last five years.
A breakdown of the average cost and the total cost of energy bills for families who live Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties on Ministry of Defence (MOD) fuel supply and the Fuel Subsidy Scheme (FSS) can be found in the table below:
Average cost to families per financial year | |||||
Year | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 |
SFA on MOD fuel supply | £292.09 | £334.78 | £315.87 | £246.76 | £271.64 |
SFA on FSS | Unavailable | £1,569.76 | £1,645.35 | £1,720.69 | £2,427.29 |
Total cost to families per financial year | |||||
Year | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 |
SFA on MOD fuel supply | £706,072.49 | £866,833.94 | £751,220.20 | £737,455.38 | £707, 906.08 |
SFA on FSS | Unavailable | £802,149.55 | £840,773.85 | £879,270.40 | £1,240,343.00 |
Due to a change in IT systems, information for financial year 2018-19 is not available and cannot be provided.