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The amendments also fail to account for the specialised nature of single living accommodation, provided by the MoD to single service personnel or those who are not accompanied by their families. These homes generally include some shared facilities and, as a result, are unlikely to meet some parts of the decent homes standard. The MoD has therefore introduced its own defence minimum standard, which sets commensurate standards of decency while taking account of the specialised function of single living accommodation. If the military homes standard were an enhanced version of the decent homes standard, as the amendment proposes, much single living accommodation would not meet it. Applying this standard to this accommodation, as proposed by the amendment, would significantly limit the ability to provide such accommodation, undermining its critical role in the deployment of our Armed Forces.