Question follow-through · 52998
Housing: Foreign Investment in UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure transparency in the acquisition of domestic housing by foreign investors.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 16 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
16 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure transparency in the acquisition of domestic housing by foreign investors.
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2025
Answer published
Data on property ownership by overseas companies in England and Wales is published by HM Land Registry and is publicly available on gov.uk. My Department has not conducted a specific assessment of the potential impact of foreign investment on housing affo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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