Armed Forces: Housing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Single Living Accommodation units and (b) Service Family Accommodation homes in (i) north Shropshire and (ii) Shropshire have recorded (A) Legionella, (B) unsafe water temperatures, (C) failed water hygiene checks and (D) all of the above in each year since 2015.
Answered by Luke Pollard
The tables below give the number of reports of (A) Legionella in Single Living Accommodation (SLA) across Shropshire and North Shropshire, as at 18 November 2025.
Data prior to 1 April 2018 is not held.
Shropshire
Year | Legionella |
2018 | 1 |
2019 | 10 |
2020 | 20 |
2021 | 58 |
2022 | 334 |
2023 | 505 |
2024 | 441 |
2025 | 333 |
North Shropshire
Year | Legionella |
2018 | 1 |
2019 | 0 |
2020 | 4 |
2021 | 3 |
2022 | 231 |
2023 | 319 |
2024 | 215 |
2025 | 183 |
For SLA, information on the number of reports of (B) unsafe water temperatures and (C) failed hygiene checks can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
For Service Family Accommodation, no (A) Legionella incidents, (B) unsafe water temperatures, or (C) failed water hygiene checks have occurred in Shropshire or North Shropshire since April 2022. Data prior to April 2022 is not held. Data prior to April 2022 is not held as the Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) contract started in 2022, hence why data starts from April 2022.
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