Question follow-through · 59271
Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help local authorities reduce the number of void properties in their social housing stock.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 8 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 steps her Department is taking to help local authorities reduce the number of void properties in their social housing stock.
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
The length of time a property is void can be affected by a range of factors, including whether a property is under repairs or in need of adaptations, how extensive these repairs or adaptations are and whether a property is earmarked for demolition or sale...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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