Question follow-through · 36397
Empty Property: Retail Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of empty retail units in town centres; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing new (a) grants
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 7 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of empty retail units in town centres; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing new (a) grants
11 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
The commercial vacancy rate is 13.3% in England and 16.2% in the West Midlands. This government is committed to tackling high street vacancy and supporting small businesses. On 4 March, we launched the Plan for Neighbourhoods, a £1.5 billion investment to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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