Question follow-through · 59696
Reserve Forces: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many sites for reserve forces managed by (a) the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations and (b) his Department are (i) unusable and (ii) partly unusable because of (A) boiler breakdowns and (B) leaking roofs.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 13 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many sites for reserve forces managed by (a) the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations and (b) his Department are (i) unusable and (ii) partly unusable because of (A) boiler breakdowns and (B) leaking roofs.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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25 Jun 2025
Answer published
All Reserve Forces and Cadets sites are managed by the Reserves Forces and Cadets Association (RFCA) and not the Department. The Volunteer Estate (VE) contains some 5112 buildings, of which 59 (1.15%) are fully or partly unusable due to boiler breakdowns ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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