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Germany SFA is assessed for its Grade for Charge (GfC), an assessment of a property's condition and other factors including scale (size), location and environmental factors.

As at November 2008 Germany SFA was at the following GfC:

	G1fC		G2fC		G3fC		G4fC
Country	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	Total
Germany	2,058	16	5,943	47	3,508	30	1,061	7	12,570

All Single Living Accommodation (SLA) is separately assessed for its physical condition and 'scale' (as defined in Joint Service Publication 315 which is available to view at:

http://www.defence-estates.mod.uk/publications/jsp/jsp315/volumel/index.php

As at June 2008, the latest date for which figures are available, SLA was at the following grade:

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	Grade 1		Grade 2		Grade 3		Grade 4		Total
Country	N o.	%	N o.	%	N o.	%	N o.	%	N o.	%
Cyprus	26	2	—	—	614	43	782	55	1,422	6
Falkland/Ascension Islands	10	3	—	—	—	—	3,438	99.7	3,448	16
Germany	2,639	17	1,547	10	4,746	31	6,504	42	15,436	69
Gibraltar	—	—	225	52	84	19	128	29	437	2
Rest of the world	32	2	44	3	59	3	1,523	92	1,658	7
Total	2,707	12	1,816	8	5,503	25	12,375	55	22,401	—

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what percentage of (a) service family and (b) single living accommodation units in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland is in each condition grade. [266936]

Mr. Kevan Jones: An asset survey of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) in England and Wales has recently been undertaken to help plan and prioritise the maintenance and improvement of SFA properties more effectively and to target resources at areas of greatest need. Of the 44,000 SFA properties in England and Wales, over 40,500 have so far been surveyed. The following Standard for Condition (SfC) of these properties are provided in the table below.

SFC	Number	Percentage
S1FC	12,983	32
S2FC	23,127	57
S3FC	4,057	10
S4FC	406	1

The remaining properties will be surveyed between now and April 2010 and consideration is being given to undertaking similar surveys of SFA in Scotland and Northern Ireland (NI).

Current data for Scotland are provided in the following table.

SFC	Number	Percentage
S1FC	3,120	97
S2FC	102	3
S3FC	5	1

At present, no data are available for NI, however the accommodation is considered to be generally in good condition.

All Single Living Accommodation (SLA) is separately assessed for its physical condition and scale. As at June 2008, SLA was at the following grade:

	Grade 1		Grade 2		Grade 3		Grade 4
Country	N o.	%	N o.	%	N o.	%	N o.	%	Total
England	30,705	25	15,702	13	18,862	15	56,799	47	122,068
Northern Ireland	1,002	24	960	23	1,402	34	776	19	4,140
Scotland	2,555	33	1,559	20	1,677	21	2,041	26	7,832
Wales	671	21	1,277	39	160	5	1,129	35	3,237
UK Total	34,933	26	19,498	14	22,101	16	60,745	44	137,277

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many overseas (a) service family and (b) single living accommodation units were in each condition grade in each year since 2001. [266945]

Mr. Kevan Jones: The requested information will take time to collate and verify. I will write to the hon. Member with the information that is available and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.

Armed Forces: Mental Health Services

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many new referrals to each department of community mental heath there (a) were in 2008 and (b) have been to date in 2009. [266934]

Mr. Kevan Jones: Statistics on referrals and initial assessments at the MOD’s 15 Military Departments of Community Mental Health are collated and published quarterly by the Defence Analysis and Statistical Advice organisation {DASA). Data for 2008 are currently being validated. DASA plans to publish data for quarters one and two of 2008 in April 2009, quarters three and four of 2008 in June and an annual report for 2008 in July. Data for the first quarter of 2009 are currently being collected.

Data provided in the following table and text below updates that provided in my previous answer to the hon. Gentleman on 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1299W. The changes are a result of two personnel who were seen in 2007 not being recorded until 2008. Please note that all figures relate to new attendances and not referrals.

The Ministry of Defence’s 15 military Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMHs) across the UK, plus satellite centres in Cyprus and Germany, provide out-patient mental health care for members of the armed forces. The following table provides the number of new attendances at the DCMHs during 2007.

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DCMH	New attendances in 2007
Aldershot	394
Brize Norton	654
Catterick	720
Colchester	340
Cranwell	239
Cyprus	82
Donnington	385
Faslane	178
Germany	578
Haslar	307
HQNI	146
Kinloss	166
Leuchars	154
Marham	211
Plymouth	488
Tidworth	379
Woolwich	228
Total	5,649

The figures record all new attendances at DCMHs (i.e. people who have not attended a DCMH previously), and therefore does not include those who were receiving treatment which started prior to January 2007.

The figures include all people who attended a DCMH appointment, not all of whom will have been subsequently diagnosed to have a mental disorder. Of the 5,649 service personnel seen for initial assessment during 2007, 3,920 personnel (69 per cent.) were diagnosed with a mental disorder.

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