Poor accommodation and failing training facilities contribute to retention problems and reduced readiness. The plan allocates £9 billion over ten years to upgrade or modernize 40,000 homes, while a review is to inform how £1.4 billion for new single-living accommodation is spent. Project Royal Oak proposes £26 billion over a decade for naval infrastructure, including Faslane, Portsmouth, and Devonport. The Army's Project Castra receives a stated £24 billion ten-year programme and the RAF's Project Trenchard £10 billion over ten years. Runways, site security, training establishments, munitions facilities, and Portsmouth jetties also receive attention. These are overdue requirements, but much of the expenditure extends beyond the current parliament. Some submarine-related Royal Oak spending is already included in the nuclear enterprise totals, so those figures cannot simply be added together.
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The estate programme confronts decades of deferred upkeep
Housing, naval bases, airfields, and training sites receive overdue investment, much of it spread across ten years and future governments.