Armed Forces: Housing
Defence
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Liam Fox (Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, Defence; Woodspring, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what percentage of overseas units of (a) single living accommodation and (b) service family accommodation are in each condition grade.
Kevan Jones (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Veterans), Ministry of Defence; North Durham, Labour)
Single Living Accommodation (SLA) is graded by its physical condition and 'scale'. The best available data indicate that as at October 2009, overseas SLA was at the following grade.
| Grade | Number of SLA bed-spaces | Percentage |
| 1 | 2,278 | 12 |
| 2 | 1,399 | 7 |
| 3 | 3,860 | 20 |
| 4 | 11,403 | 59 |
| Not graded | 265 | 2 |
Service Family Accommodation (SFA) is assessed for its Standard for Condition (SfC), a measure of the physical condition of a property. As at October 2009, overseas SFA was at the following SfC.
| SfC | Number of SFA properties | Percentage |
| S1fC | 4,390 | 29 |
| S2fC | 3,930 | 26 |
| S3fC | 4,152 | 27 |
| S4fC | 2,848 | 18 |
| Not yet assessed | 99 | Less than 1 |