Question follow-through · 26003
Armed Forces: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the military homes his Department bought back in December 2024 are in Northern Ireland.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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- Defence: Procurement · 27 Jan 2025
- Space Technology: Northern Ireland · 27 Jan 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the military homes his Department bought back in December 2024 are in Northern Ireland.
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
No military homes in Northern Ireland were brought back from Annington Property Limited as part of the Annington Deal which was announced on 17 December 2024. Military housing in Scotland and Northern Ireland is predominantly owned directly by the Ministr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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