Armed Forces: Housing

(asked on 14th November 2022) - View Source
Questioner
John Healey Portrait
John Healey
(Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2022 to Question 75786 on Armed Forces: Housing, if he will provide a regional breakdown of the figures provided.

Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 17th November 2022

The table below shows a count of Service personnel who have occupied Permanent Single Living Accommodation (SLA) which incurred no rental charge as the accommodation was categorised below grade 4. The table has been broken down by Region as recorded on JPA. Please note - Service personnel can occupy more than one SLA in a calendar year.

Calendar Year

Region

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022 to date

Aberdeenshire

~

~

~

10

10

Angus

10

10

30

60

50

Antrim

10

10

10

10

10

Argyll

10

10

10

20

20

Armagh

~

Avon

10

10

10

10

10

Ayrshire

~

~

10

10

~

Banffshire

~

~

~

~

~

Bedfordshire

10

20

10

10

10

Berkshire

40

20

60

50

40

Berwickshire

~

~

Buckinghamshire

40

60

50

60

80

Caithness

~

~

Cambridgeshire

50

10

20

20

20

Cheshire

20

30

20

20

30

Clackmannanshire

~

~

~

Cleveland

10

10

10

10

10

Clwyd

~

~

~

~

10

Cornwall

90

90

60

50

50

County Antrim

~

~

~

10

~

County Armagh

~

County Down

~

~

10

~

~

County Durham

~

10

10

10

10

County Fermanagh

~

County Londonderry

~

~

County Tyrone

~

~

Cumbria

10

10

10

10

20

Derbyshire

10

10

10

20

10

Devon

200

340

420

320

280

Dorset

110

130

170

120

110

Down

~

~

~

~

~

Dumfriesshire

~

~

~

~

~

Dunbartonshire

10

10

10

10

10

Durham

10

10

10

20

10

Dyfed

10

10

10

10

~

East Lothian

~

~

~

East Sussex

10

10

~

10

10

East Yorkshire

10

20

10

20

60

Essex

20

40

60

60

50

Fife

10

10

10

20

20

Gloucestershire

40

30

30

30

20

Greater London

10

10

30

20

10

Greater Manchester

~

~

~

10

20

Gwent

10

10

10

10

10

Gwynedd

~

~

~

~

Hampshire

430

420

480

460

360

Herefordshire

20

10

10

10

10

Hertfordshire

10

10

10

10

10

Highland

~

~

Humberside

~

~

Inverness-Shire

80

50

30

~

~

Isle of Man

~

~

~

Isle of Skye

~

Isle of Wight

~

~

10

~

Kent

30

40

40

50

30

Kincardineshire

~

~

Kirkcudbrightshire

~

~

~

~

~

Lanarkshire

10

10

10

20

10

Lancashire

40

40

30

50

40

Leicestershire

10

20

10

20

20

Lincolnshire

120

70

130

70

60

Londonderry

~

~

Lothian

~

~

~

Merseyside

20

20

20

30

20

Mid Glamorgan

10

10

10

10

20

Middlesex

10

10

10

10

10

Midlothian

10

10

~

~

~

Moray

~

10

10

10

10

Morayshire

~

~

~

10

~

Norfolk

30

40

20

160

200

North Humberside

~

~

~

~

~

North Yorkshire

100

70

200

260

310

Northamptonshire

10

10

10

10

10

Northumberland

10

10

10

10

10

Nottinghamshire

10

10

20

20

10

Oxfordshire

510

540

470

370

320

Perthshire

~

~

Powys

~

~

~

10

20

Renfrewshire

10

~

~

~

~

Roxburghshire

~

Rutland

10

40

30

160

180

Shetland

~

~

Shropshire

40

20

20

40

30

Somerset

520

540

530

490

400

South Glamorgan

20

30

50

60

60

South Humberside

~

~

~

~

~

South Yorkshire

20

10

10

20

20

Staffordshire

20

30

30

40

20

Stirling

~

Stirlingshire

~

~

~

~

~

Strathclyde

~

~

~

Suffolk

90

260

170

110

100

Surrey

460

160

70

100

70

Sutherland

~

Tayside

~

~

~

Tyne and Wear

20

20

20

20

10

Tyrone

~

Warwickshire

50

10

10

10

10

West Glamorgan

10

~

~

10

10

West Lothian

~

~

10

10

~

West Midlands

90

80

40

30

40

West Sussex

10

10

20

10

30

West Yorkshire

20

20

20

30

30

Western Isles

~

Wigtownshire

~

~

~

~

~

Wiltshire

120

70

60

130

140

Worcestershire

10

10

10

10

10

Overseas

100

100

40

40

30

Not recorded

1,100

1,160

1,320

1,180

1,100

Grand Total

4,560

4,530

4,690

4,670

4,410

This information was extracted from the Joint Personnel Administration MI System on 15 November 2022.

All figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, numbers ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.

~ denotes 5 or fewer.

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