MoD: Improving single living accommodation for service personnel

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 1 Feb 2021 Closed: 28 Jun 2021 Parliament page
Single Living Accommodation (SLA) is accommodation provided to single and unaccompanied service personnel, normally by means of a Mess or accommodation block. Armed forces surveyi ng s show s just over two in five (42%) service personnel live in SLA during the working week. The MoD states that regular forces … Read more
11 Recommendations
13 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
2 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 5 events
16 Nov
2021
Correspondence
2 Sep
2021
Report published
23 Apr
2021
Report published
16 Mar
2021
Correspondence
25 Feb
2021
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
25 Feb 2021
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Improving single living accommodation for service personnel
Charlie Pate · Ministry of Defence David Brewer · Defence Infrastructure Organisation Lieutenant General James Swift · Ministry of Defence Sir Stephen Lovegrove · Ministry of Defence
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Fifty-Fourth Report - Improving single living accommodation for … HC 940 23 Apr 2021 24 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
Clear
10 Conclusion Rejected
Fifty-Fourth Report - Improving si…
We enquired as to what the Department is doing in response to the decline in...
We enquired as to what the Department is doing in response to the decline in levels of satisfaction reported in the 2020 Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey (AFCAS). This showed that 49% of service personnel living in Single Living Accommodation … Read more
Government Response
The government rejects the implicit recommendation to set a target for satisfaction levels in Single Living Accommodation. It states that while understanding personnel views is important, more work is needed to understand needs before a satisfaction target can be set, and the Defence Accommodation Strategy will not include such a target.
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22 Conclusion Rejected
Fifty-Fourth Report - Improving si…
The funds for improving Single Living Accommodation are not ring-fenced.
The funds for improving Single Living Accommodation are not ring-fenced. While the Department stressed that Single Living Accommodation was a very high priority in Defence, it also stated there are other priorities.66 It faces wider affordability challenges, and the equipment … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees that funding Single Living Accommodation (SLA) improvements is important but explicitly states it will not ring-fence funds centrally, as investment remains a delegated matter for single Services.
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Government Response AI assessment · 24 of 11 classified
Accepted 15
Accepted in Part 1
Not Addressed 6
Rejected 2
Total 11 recs + 13 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
16 Nov 2021 Correspondence from David Williams, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, re update on improving single living accommodation for personnel, dated 2 November 2021
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16 Mar 2021 Correspondence from Sir Stephen Lovegrove KCB, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, re Improving single living accommodation for service personnel PAC hearing 25 February 2021, dated 11 March 2021
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