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date	21/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Empty Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) current and (b) former houses owned by his Department were unoccupied in May 2023; and what was the cost to the public purse of maintaining empty houses owned by his Department in the (i) 2020-21, (ii) 2021-22 and (iii) 2022-23 financial years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	190582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>The vast majority of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) is leased from Annington Homes Ltd (AHL). Any properties no longer required for Service personnel are handed back to AHL.</p><p> </p><p>The number of unoccupied (void) SFA properties in May 2023, was 9,167 or 19.18% of the c.47,800 total SFA housing stock in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The total void maintenance costs for the four Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) accommodation contracts covering the North, Central, South East and South West regions for Financial Year 2022-23 was £5,902,941. This maintenance cost was for a total of 9,571 void properties at that time.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is only able to provide the cost of maintaining void SFA for the FDIS accommodation contracts which came into force in April 2022. Under the previous National Housing Prime contract, there was no contractual requirement to record maintenance cost data by occupied and void SFA. This was rectified for the FDIS contracts.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/06/2023 12:20:19 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1246839

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date	27/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Empty Property
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many former military sites are currently vacant in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
uin	HL9643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>A copy of the list showing the land and buildings that are in the process of being disposed of by the Ministry of Defence has been placed in the Library of the House. The majority of these sites are still occupied whilst being prepared for disposal. However, 25 part or whole sites are currently vacant and have been physically handed over to Defence Infrastructure Organisation for disposal.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 04/11/2020 12:19:11 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie attachment 1 file name HL9643 - MOD Disposals List.xlsx title List of MOD Sites Currently Vacant in the UK
tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

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registered interest
date	13/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Empty Property
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Ministry of Defence dwellings are currently lying empty in each of (1) England, (2) Scotland, and (3) Wales; and what plans they have, if any, to modernise and re-let those dwellings.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>As of 27 January 2020 the Ministry of Defence (MOD) currently has 8951 Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties vacant in England (20%), 850 properties in Scotland (27%) and 274 properties in Wales (25%). These figures represent a snapshot in time as the occupancy rate varies on a daily basis as Service families move in and out. The Department is focused on reducing the number of empty properties in the UK from the current level of 20% overall to a 10% management margin by Autumn 2021. This is being achieved by handing back vacant properties in England and Wales to Annington Homes; widening eligibility to cohabiting couples and Service leavers; and accelerating the letting of temporarily empty properties to screened members of the public at prevailing market rates.</p><p>SFA are modernised as required to maintain them at a Decent Homes Standard (DHS). 97% of all SFA meet DHS as a minimum, and are, therefore, available for allocation to Service families. In the last financial year this resulted in approximately 3,800 homes receiving upgrades, including new kitchens and bathrooms.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 27/01/2020 16:31:21 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton