§ Mr. Duncan SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on his Department's housing repair programme. [105564]
§ Dr. Moonie[holding answer 18 January 2000]: The Ministry of Defence plans cyclical maintenance and responds to requests for repairs through works services contracts. In Great Britain those works are managed by the Defence Housing Executive (DHE) who have a total repair and maintenance budget of £105.361 million in the current Financial Year. An additional £7.650 million is budgeted for carpets and curtains. Together these support the stock of some 64,000 houses. DHE have strict performance targets for meeting repair requests and these are being upheld.
Overseas and in Northern Ireland repairs and maintenance are actioned through the individual Service establishment's overall repairs and maintenance budget. This covers all Service buildings and office accommodation as well as housing and it is not possible to identify precisely the expenditure for housing alone.
§ Mr. Duncan SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what funding his Department has allocated for each of the next three years for the renovation of service housing. [105563]
§ Dr. Moonie[holding answer 18 January 2000]: The funding allocated for the next three years for the renovation of the married quarters estate (the upgrade programme) in Great Britain is as follows:
Financial year £ million 2000–01 79.7 2001–02 78.8 2002–03 69.5 There is no separate programme for the renovation of Service housing overseas which is undertaken with general estate maintenance.