PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Military Bases: Repairs and Maintenance (5 February 2024)

Question Asked

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.

Asked by:
Chris Elmore (Labour)

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.


Answered by:
James Cartlidge (Conservative)
15 February 2024

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