Thousands living in poor quality military housing, report says

All I can say it’s a good job they didn’t see the conditions that C Company were living in when we were in
lemgo in 1978/79 over 100 blokes living underneath the gym

Thousands of armed forces personnel are living in sub-standard accommodation, according to a report by the government's spending watchdog.


The National Audit Office said barracks had suffered from "decades of under-investment" by the Ministry of Defence.


Issues with basics such as heating and hot water were among the common complaints, the report said.


The MoD said it had invested £1.2bn over the last decade in improving military housing.


But the watchdog said there was still a £1.5bn backlog of repairs and the MoD was failing in its commitment to provide high-quality subsidised housing.


As of last year, more than half of the armed forces - nearly 80,000 people - were occupying single living accommodation blocks, either on a full or part-time basis.

Considering the recent complaints issuing from the occupants of at least 2 former military camps with regards living conditions, perhaps now is the time for the government to re-examine it's policy towards these asylum seekers.

The camps should be visited and the occupants asked if given their complaints with regard living conditions etc., would they like to be returned to their country of origin. As I suspect very few are escaping from persecution in their own countries but are actually migrant workers.