§ Mr. TylerTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will provide a regional breakdown of the numbers of vacant married quarters at the end of March 1992, 1993 and 1994, with an estimate of the proportion of the total that the figures for each region represent.
§ Mr. HanleyThe regional breakdown of vacant married quarters at 31 March 1992, 1993 and 1994 and the percentage of the total stock which was vacant is as follows:
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31 March 1992 31 March 1993 31 March 1994 Region Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Yorkshire 596 11.6 532 9.8 427 7.9 Northern 88 13.6 55 8.7 116 16.4 North West 126 13.7 192 19.1 144 15.1 South East 3,684 12.9 3,326 12.6 3,407 13.2 South West 1,594 12.3 1,985 13.5 2,089 14.3 East Anglia 566 10.6 632 12.1 1,145 21.2 East Midlands 707 17.5 638 16.8 670 18.5 West Midlands 322 11.9 342 12.5 389 14.5 Wales 230 9.5 347 14.5 452 18.1 Scotland 954 14.5 745 11.5 736 11.3 Northern Ireland 497 16.4 372 12.5 307 10 2 Total 9,364 12.9 9,166 12.8 9,882 13.9 Many of these vacant married quarters were either undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work, held for unit deployments or already allocated to service families who were due to move in shortly. In addition, the following vacant surplus married quarters were in the process of being sold:
Period Number 31 March 1992 1,889 31 March 1993 1,861 31 March 1994 1,519 Unfortunately, these figures are not maintained in a form which enables them to be readily broken down by regions.