Deputy PM corrects the record after military homes error during PMQs

12 November 2025

We are pleased to report that deputy prime minister David Lammy MP has published a ministerial correction after being contacted by Full Fact about an error he made during Prime Minister’s Questions on 5 November 2025.

During an exchange with Labour MP Leigh Ingham about the treatment of armed forces personnel, Mr Lammy said: “4,000 military homes, that’s nine out of every ten, are going to be upgraded”.

However, there are currently 47,600 Service Family Accommodation homes in the UK, 40,000 of which are set to be improved—not 4,000, as Mr Lammy suggested.

Following a request from Full Fact, he has corrected the record to acknowledge he should have said 40,000 homes were to be upgraded, rather than 4,000.

Although this may appear a minor or inadvertent error, it is important that politicians are held to account for the statements they make, and incorrect information is removed from the record or flagged whenever possible. Ministers should correct false or misleading claims made in Parliament as soon as possible in keeping with the Ministerial Code, which states that they should correct “any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity”.

We are grateful to Mr Lammy for taking action to correct the record in this instance. This represents best practice, and stands in contrast with the many correction requests we regularly make to government ministers and opposition politicians that receive no response.

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