Healey announces £1.5bn in extra funding for military homes

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More than £1.5 billion in extra funding for military homes will be confirmed as part of the Government’s strategic defence review, the Ministry of Defence has said. The review will set out the money, which will be put towards work to improve housing and unlock further development. Speaking on a visit to some military homes in Cambridgeshire, Defence Secretary John Healey said: “I’m announcing through the strategic defence review a record increase – £1.5 billion in the next five years – to upgrade military family homes. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I'm announcing through the Strategic Defense Review a record increase, 1.5 billion in the

00:06next five years to upgrade military family homes. Our forces make extraordinary sacrifices to keep

00:16us safe and to serve this country and yet for years we've forced their families to live in

00:21substandard homes that you or I and your viewers just wouldn't tolerate for themselves. That

00:27changes. As a new government we're changing that and already this year we've brought back

00:3336,000 military homes into public ownership, into control so we can start to upgrade them

00:39and plan for the long term. Last month we brought in a consumer charter so the basics of being able

00:46to move into a new home are also met and today we're matching that with this extra 1.5 billion

00:52over the next five years that will allow us to turn round what has been a national scandal

00:58for decades.

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