Armed Forces: Housing
(asked on 15th April 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many notices to quit have been issued by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to (a) service and (b) non service families in Service Family Accommodation properties in the UK in each year since 2010.
Data on the number of Notices to Quit (NTQs) issued to Service personnel and their families in Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties in the UK is available from April 2022; the implementation date of the current service contract:
Year | No of NTQs issued to Service Personnel |
April 2022 – end December 2022 | Nil |
January 2023 – December 2023 | 159 |
January 2024 – March 2024 | 5 |
A monthly breakdown of issued NTQs since January 2023 is provided below:
Month | Number of NTQs Issued to Service Personnel |
Jan 23 | 2 |
Feb 23 | 0 |
Mar 23 | 0 |
Apr 23 | 0 |
May 23 | 0 |
Jun 23 | 0 |
Jul 23 | 0 |
Aug 23 | 72 |
Sep 23 | 23 |
Oct 23 | 33 |
Nov 23 | 27 |
Dec 23 | 2 |
Jan 24 | 3 |
Feb 24 | 2 |
Mar 24 | 0 |
The Civilian Sublet Tenancy Scheme began in 2016 and no NTQs were issued until 2019. An annual breakdown of the number of NTQs that have been issued to Civilian Sublet tenants living in SFA properties in the UK is provided in the table below:
Time Period | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (to April 16th) |
No of NTQs issued to Civilian Sublet Tenants | 14 | 3 | 459 | 95 | 92 | 98 |
A monthly breakdown of issued NTQs since January 2023 is provided below:
Month | Number of NTQ’s Issued |
Jan 23 | 11 |
Feb 23 | 1 |
Mar 23 | 5 |
Apr 23 | 9 |
May 23 | 8 |
Jun 23 | 0 |
Jul 23 | 1 |
Aug 23 | 1 |
Sep 23 | 14 |
Oct 23 | 16 |
Nov 23 | 17 |
Dec 23 | 9 |
Jan 24 | 17 |
Feb 24 | 3 |
Mar 24 | 63 |
Apr 24 (up to 16th of the month) | 15 |