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 UK 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)
A new condition survey of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties in England and Wales is currently being undertaken and is due to be completed by April 2010. Of those properties surveyed, at October 2009 the following are at each Standard for Condition (SfC):
| SfC | Number of properties | Percentage |
| S1fC | 12,412 | 37 |
| S2fC | 19,825 | 59 |
| S3fC | 1,191 | 4 |
| S4fC | 217 | Less than 1 |
Similar surveys of SFA in Scotland and Northern Ireland (NI) will be earned out in due course. At present no SfC data are available for NI SFA, however current data for Scotland SFA are as follows:
| SfC | Number of properties | Percentage |
| S1fC | 3,134 | 97 |
| S2fC | 93 | 3 |
| S3fC | 1 | Less than 1 |
Single Living Accommodation (SLA) is graded for its physical condition and 'scale'. As at December 2008, the latest date for which data is available, UK SLA was at the following grade:
| Grade | Number of SLA bed-spaces | As a percentage |
| 1 | 34,933 | 25 |
| 2 | 19,498 | 14 |
| 3 | 22,101 | 16 |
| 4 | 60,745 | 45 |