Our forces families are made to live in damp, mouldy service accommodation, with broken boilers. In his statement, the Secretary of State spoke about rent freezes, but well over 4,300 troops already do not pay rent because their accommodation is so bad. He said that there would be no unfunded gimmicks, so is the £400 million in two years for service accommodation new money or is it from existing budgets and commitments?
Defence Command Paper Refresh
Proceeding contribution from
Tonia Antoniazzi
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 July 2023.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Defence Command Paper Refresh.
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