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Written evidence submitted anonymously

 

I am writing to you in my capacity as wife of a serving Officer in the British Army to make you aware of my serious and urgent concerns for a new accommodation model that is forced onto the Armed Forces.

 

The New Accommodation Offer (NAO), in the simplest terms, removes rank-based entitlement to housing, which is to now be allocated purely on the number of children in a family.

 

The policy is wholly flawed and I, along with the serving armed forces community, are completely dumbfounded as to how this has been allowed to occur.

 

I have broken down a few of the key points below to help illustrate the problems that we are facing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully you will agree that this policy is poorly researched and set to be a disaster if implemented.

 

 

26 October 2023

 

 

 

 


[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/understanding-service-personnel-satisfaction-with-their-lived-experience-of-the-future-accommodation-model-pilot  and https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-the-effectiveness-of-the-future-accommodation-model-to-increase-private-renting-behaviour-amongst-uk-service-personnel