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Armed Forces: Housing

Answer

Data on the number of Notices to Quit (NTQs) issued to Service personnel and their families in Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties in the UK is available from April 2022; the implementation date of the current service contract:

Year	No of NTQs issued to Service Personnel
April 2022 – end December 2022	Nil
January 2023 – December 2023	159
January 2024 – March 2024	5

A monthly breakdown of issued NTQs since January 2023 is provided below:

Month	Number of NTQs Issued to Service Personnel
Jan 23	2
Feb 23	0
Mar 23	0
Apr 23	0
May 23	0
Jun 23	0
Jul 23	0
Aug 23	72
Sep 23	23
Oct 23	33
Nov 23	27
Dec 23	2
Jan 24	3
Feb 24	2
Mar 24	0

The Civilian Sublet Tenancy Scheme began in 2016 and no NTQs were issued until 2019. An annual breakdown of the number of NTQs that have been issued to Civilian Sublet tenants living in SFA properties in the UK is provided in the table below:

Time Period	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024 (to April 16th)
No of NTQs issued to Civilian Sublet Tenants	14	3	459	95	92	98

A monthly breakdown of issued NTQs since January 2023 is provided below:

Month	Number of NTQ’s Issued
Jan 23	11
Feb 23	1
Mar 23	5
Apr 23	9
May 23	8
Jun 23	0
Jul 23	1
Aug 23	1
Sep 23	14
Oct 23	16
Nov 23	17
Dec 23	9
Jan 24	17
Feb 24	3
Mar 24	63
Apr 24 (up to 16th of the month)	15

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

21541

Session

2023-24

Related items

Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
Friday, 24 May 2024
Written questions
House of Commons

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Armed forces Housing Evictions Defence Infrastructure Organisation

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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