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Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the 36,347 houses reacquired in January 2025 (a) were not suitable for occupation at time of reacquisition and (b) are not suitable for occupation as of May 2025.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
6 May 2025
Target answer date
8 May 2025
Answer
12 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the 36,347 houses reacquired in January 2025 (a) were not suitable for occupation at time of reacquisition and (b) are not suitable for occupation as of May 2025.

  2. 8 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 May 2025

    Answer published

    As at 9 January 2025, (a) 3,247 of the properties re-acquired by the Department were void not suitable for occupation, and (b) as at 1 May 2025, 3,049 of the properties are void and not suitable for occupation.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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