Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many single living accommodation bed spaces his Department owns as of 16 January 2024; and of those, how many and what proportion are located in the UK.
In the UK there are 154,000 single living bedspaces.
There are c.133,000 permanent and temporary bedspaces and a further 21,000 bedspaces in the UK training estate.
81,000 Service personnel occupy permanent Single Living Accommodation (SLA) across all Services meaning that 55.7% of Armed Forces Personnel are accommodated in SLA.