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<p>There has been no recent assessment of the totality of single living accommodation,
which includes mess accommodation, provided by the Royal Air Force (RAF), but data
collected between 2005 and 2020 does provide an overview of their condition. All single
living accommodation the RAF provides to its personnel is required to be of a suitable
standard and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is currently working to define a Defence
Minimum Standard (DMS) against which all single living accommodation will be assessed.</p><p>
</p><p>The MOD’s Defence Infrastructure Organisation manages, on a Tri-Service basis,
around 50,000 properties in the UK including targeted improvement programmes and planning
future requirements. Therefore, it is not possible to separately identify RAF Service
Families Accommodation (SFA). However, as at 1 September 2021, of the 99% of SFA that
were assessed, 87.8% of the properties were above the Government’s Decent Homes Standard
and 8.9% were at the standard. The remaining 2.3% were considered below the standard
and not allocated to Service Families.</p>
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