Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 16
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At the time of our oral evidence session in June, the Department had only one...
Conclusion
At the time of our oral evidence session in June, the Department had only one remaining estate optimisation target, set in the 2015 Spending Review: to reduce the built estate by 30% (23,200 hectares) by 2040–41.23 The Department said that this target was based on a top-down assumption that was not based on detailed plans, and was arbitrarily based on how much the Armed Forces had shrunk between 2000 and 2015.24