Overview

• From this week, service personnel and their families can keep up to two dogs, cats or smaller pets in military accommodation without securing formal approval.
• They have greater freedom to personalise their homes with new allowances for fixtures and decorations.
• Family members can now run businesses from their military homes under streamlined approval procedures.
• The measures form part of Defence Secretary John Healey’s Consumer Charter pledge to stop the rot in military accommodation.
• These changes build on earlier steps this parliament that returned 36,000 military homes to public ownership and secured a £7 billion investment in accommodation standards.