Handover of forces homes attacked

When I was reading some of the latest news articles concerning auditing, I found this shocking text. The National Audit Office made a report about people that move into a new house. Fasten your seatbelts, because these are the results!

Tell me, if you’re going to move into a new house, the first thing you want, is to see it? Well, mostly, people don’t see where they’re going to live. And the worse thing about it, is that it’s very dirty when they arrive. For example, a third of the families they audited, said it hadn’t been cleaned before they moved in.

The Commons spending watchdogs wants the Ministry of Defense to do something about this. The armed forces families should get more details about their accommodation. And if it’s so dirty, when they want to move it, they should be able to deduct cleaning charges from the previous owners.

The public accounts committee examined the report of the National Audit Office. And they decided to introduce this possibility to deduct these cleaning costs. In addition, they force previous occupants to give details (including photographs and floor prints) about the accommodation, before they move in.

The committee’s chairman thinks soldier families should be treated like clients. So if they’re a big family, they should get a big house. But MoD gives these big houses to the officers.

The Shadow defense secretary says that service personnel shouldn’t have to worry about whether their family has It good at home.

I think it’s about time they do something about this. It’s a sort of discrimination, if they give the best houses to the officers, and the worse to the lowest rank of soldiers. These soldiers also have rights and needs. And I think the MoD should hire some people to check these houses. Because I think everybody deserves a good, clean and lovely house. It’s good they can deduct the cleaning costs.

So government, do something about it!

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