Ministry of Defence Houses

HC Deb 16 January 1990 vol 165 c138W

Mr. Macdonald

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many surplus Ministry of Defence houses have been sold to service men to date.

Mr. Neubert

As at 8 December 1989, a total of 2,241 surplus married quarters had been sold to service personnel through the Ministry of Defence's own discounted sales scheme since its inception on 1 December 1983.

In addition, approximately 224 surplus quarters were sold to service personnel through the Ministry of Defence's non-discounted sales scheme, which operated from 1 April 1981 to 30 November 1983. We do not maintain records of surplus quarters that may have been sold to service personnel outside these two schemes.