34. Another initiative on which we have commented before is the Future Accommodation Model, which is designed to give service personnel greater choice and flexibility over their accommodation and allow access to the wider housing market. The Department's Future Accommodation Model pilots to trial alternative ways of offering suitable accommodation for service personnel were due to start in 2018, but have slipped, and the Department now hopes that once it has ministerial and Treasury approval they will start later in 2019. The Department has previously told us that the pilots will take three years so we are now looking at almost 2023 before the pilots will have concluded. The Department told us that there would be three pilots, one for each of the Services.66
35. The Department assured us that it would not put service personnel and their families in homes which are not of 'decent homes standard', and was attempting to bring all homes to a higher standard. It thought that over 80% were of 'decent home plus' standard already.67
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