The Department told us that an additional £740 million funding over the next four years was allocated to infrastructure investment in the 2020 Spending Review, which will enable it to address estate priorities and move more of the estate onto a preventive maintenance regime.42 In June 2021, it also let new estate maintenance contracts – with a value of more than £2 billion during the next seven years. However, we remain concerned that the Department risks repeating the failed approach we have seen on previous contracts. The Department told us that unlike previously, these contracts use industry standard specifications. It thinks that this, together with a new monitoring regime and establishing incentives to improve armed forces’ satisfaction with their accommodation, will result in faster and better performance, although it could not offer an absolute guarantee.43