Question follow-through · 58965
Compulsory Purchase and Empty Dwelling Management Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department collects on local authorities’ use of (a) Compulsory Purchase Orders and (b) Empty Dwelling Management Orders.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department collects on local authorities’ use of (a) Compulsory Purchase Orders and (b) Empty Dwelling Management Orders.
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
My Department has published a register of decisions on compulsory purchase orders in England submitted by local authorities for confirmation since 2019. It can be found on gov.uk here.The Department does not collect data on the number of Empty Dwelling Ma...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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