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The amendment would therefore result in a complex and fragmented system and a lack of parity for service personnel as different standards and enforcement processes would apply to MoD accommodation depending on where it was located. The Government are already taking substantial steps to improve the quality of military housing. The defence housing strategy, to be published later this year, will set out in detail our plans for doing that. Given the major enforcement challenges that would result from the noble Baroness’s amendment, the approach that the Government are taking is a better and far more practical way of achieving her very laudable aim, which we support, of providing homes fit for heroes.