§ Mr. JamiesonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the number and location of vacant dwellings owned by his Department in the parliamentary constituencies of Plymouth, Drake, Plymouth, Devonport, and Plymouth, Sutton.
§ Mr. HanleyAs at 31 December 1993 the Ministry of Defence owned the following vacant dwellings in the parliamentary constituencies of Plymouth, Drake, Plymouth, Devonport and Plymouth, Sutton:
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Plymouth Drake Plymouth Devonport Plymouth Sutton Service married quarters 11 205 67 MOD civilian houses 0 5 0 Former married quarters in the process of being sold 27 17 26
Plymouth Drake Plymouth Devonport Plymouth Sutton TOTAL 38 227 93 The majority of the married quarters are either undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work or modernisation or are already allotted to service families who will be moving in shortly. I am not prepared to give the location of these properties on security grounds.
§ Mr. JamiesonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many vacant dwellings are owned by his Department in each parliamentary constituency in Devon and Cornwall.
§ Mr. HanleyFollowing is the information.
Service married quarters MOD civilian houses Former married quarters in the process of sale Total North Devon 20 0 0 20 Exeter 5 0 0 5 Honiton 30 0 3 33 Plymouth Devonport 151 5 17 173 Plymouth Drake 11 0 27 38 Plymouth Sutton 67 0 26 93 Torridge and West Devon 10 0 0 10 Falmouth and Camborne 1 0 0 1 North Cornwall 161 0 0 161 St. Ives 85 0 0 85 South East Cornwall 2 0 0 2 The majority of the married quarters are either undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work or modernisation or are already allotted to service families who will be moving in shortly.
§ Mr. JamiesonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many dwellings are owned by his Department; and how many are currently vacant.
§ Mr. HanleyAs at 31 December 1993 MOD owned 71,415 service married quarters of which 10,112 were vacant and at 30 September 1993, the latest date for which figures are available, 677 MOD civilian houses of which 134 were vacant. The majority of the vacant quarters were either undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work or modernisation, already allocated to service families who were due to move in shortly or held for units returning from overseas as a result of the restructuring of the armed forces. In addition some 2,019 service married quarters, of which 1,275 were vacant and 456 civilian houses, of which 44 were vacant, were in the process of being sold.