> Military housing and accommodation needs urgently improving. MoD contracts for poor service providers need to be cut and offered to better managed contractors

> Military housing and accommodation needs urgently improving. MoD contracts for poor service providers need to be cut and offered to better managed contractors. > Pay needs to rise at least in average with other public sector bodies, if not far higher given the skill sets required and the risks to life which we routinely ask our men and women in uniform to run on our behalf. The government needs to improve the offer, and create working conditions more in-line with expectations of the society of today, whilst balancing the need to retain combat lethality.