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Written question asked by Chris Elmore (Labour) on Monday, 5 February 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 7 February 2024. It was answered by James Cartlidge (Conservative) on Thursday, 15 February 2024 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.


Military Bases: Repairs and Maintenance

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of maintenance of military and defence bases in each year since 2015.

Answer

The maintenance costs for Ministry of Defence (MOD) bases in the UK and Overseas dating back to Financial Year 2018-19 is shown in the tables below (rounded to one decimal place).

Defence Infrastructure Organisation

FY2018-19

FY2019-20

FY2020-21

FY2021-22

FY2022-23

£497.2 million

£576 million

£634.3 million

£689.4 million

£706.4 million

Navy

FY2018-19

FY2019-20

FY2020-21

FY2021-22

FY2022-23

£67.4 million

£68 million

£59 million

£61.6 million

£71.1 million

Army

FY2018-19

FY2019-20

FY2020-21

FY2021-22

FY2022-23

£5.5 million

£6.4 million

£6.7 million

£4.4 million

£4.8 million

Defence Equipment & Support

FY2018-19

FY2019-20

FY2020-21

FY2021-22

FY2022-23

£10.8 million

£8.9 million

£10.1 million

£16.9 million

£15 million

Strategic Command

FY2018-19

FY2019-20

FY2020-21

FY2021-22

FY2022-23

£3.1 million

£4.1 million

£2.3 million

£0.3 million

£0.4 million

Maintenance on the majority of MOD bases is carried out under contracts managed by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation. However, a proportion of bases are managed by other individual areas of the MOD and are detailed separately in corresponding tables above.

Maintenance cost data prior to Financial Year 2018-19 is not held because IT systems and contracts were not configured to capture data in this way.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
13104
Session
2023-24
Subjects
Expenditure Military bases Repairs and maintenance
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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