Armed Forces: Housing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many complaints regarding (a) damp and (b) mould have been recorded in (i) single living accommodation and (ii) service family accommodation (A) at RAF Shawbury, (B) in North Shropshire constituency and (C) in Shropshire in each year since 2015.
Answered by Luke Pollard
Nine in 10 military homes (over 40,000 houses) will be modernised or upgraded to new, higher standards, with 14,000 homes rebuilt or substantially refurbished, funded by the Government’s record uplift in Defence spending and the Strategic Defence Review’s £1.5 billion extra investment into military housing in this parliament.
The table below provides a breakdown of the number of complaints regarding damp and mould broken down by year from 2018.
The accuracy and reliability of data held before 2018 cannot be assured.
For RAF Shawbury and North Shropshire
Year | Damp | Mould |
2018 (Fm 1 Apr) | 1 | 3 |
2019 | 5 | 11 |
2020 | 6 | 11 |
2021 | 12 | 10 |
2022 | 0 | 3 |
2023 | 3 | 11 |
2024 | 7 | 8 |
2025 | 2 | 11 |
For Shropshire:
Year | Damp | Mould |
2018 (fm 1 Apr) | 22 | 95 |
2019 | 35 | 104 |
2020 | 34 | 82 |
2021 | 51 | 145 |
2022 | 12 | 103 |
2023 | 21 | 106 |
2024 | 59 | 147 |
2025 | 23 | 73 |
Service Family Accommodation (SFA)
The Ministry of Defence does not hold data for SFA in the format requested.
In order to answer this Parliamentary Questions, MOD’s Industry Partner would be required to review every stage 1 complaint, which could only be completed at a disproportionate cost.
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