Recommendation 20

Improvements to Single Living Accommodation cannot be carried out in isolation because they overlap with wider departmental programmes such as the Defence Estate Optimisation (DEO) Portfolio (to create an estate of a more appropriate size and better quality) and the Future Accommodation Model (FAM) (to provide personnel with a range of housing options). Interdependencies have been identified but the initiatives run to different timetables and are not always joined up.60 The Department informed us that the Defence Accommodation Strategy it is producing will draw together policy, infrastructure and delivery elements, and coordinate the dependencies between the infrastructure plans for Single Living Accommodation, the DEO Portfolio and current investments. It confirmed that the strategy will be written by the end of 2021 and will be published.61 53 Qq 33, 88–89 54 C&AG’s Report, paras 8, 2.3, 2.2 55 Q 76, C&AG’s Report, paras 8, 2.4–2.6 56 Q 76 57 C&AG’s Report, paras 15, 4.2–4.3 58 Q 68; C&AG’s Report, para 15 59 Qq 42–43; C&AG’s Report, para 3.12 60 C&AG’s Report, paras 17, 4.12, 4.13 61 Qq 85–87 16 Improving single living accommodation for service personnel Future funding