Armed Forces: Housing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Defence Housing Strategy: A £9bn ‘generational renewal' for forces family housing and 100,000 new homes on MOD land to drive growth, published on 2 November 2025, how many of the 14,000 military homes will be (a) refurbished or (b) replaced in the (i) current and (ii) next Parliament.
Answered by Luke Pollard
The Ministry of Defence will publish its detailed business case and comprehensive delivery timeline for the £9 billion Defence Housing Strategy over the next 12 months, in direct alignment with the National Audit Office (NAO) recommendations.
Work has already commenced on the 14,000 homes requiring substantial refurbishment, which were set out in the Strategy. We have already made significant improvements on over 1,250 military homes, with another 2,000 to be improved this financial year.
The Armed Forces Bill includes provisions to create a Defence Housing Service to support this work and that bill is proceeding through Parliament currently. We remain committed to spending £9 billion on defence house refitting or rebuilding 9 in 10 defence homes in the next decade.
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