Question follow-through · 88650
Empty Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has a target to reduce the number of empty homes.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 21 Nov 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
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has a target to reduce the number of empty homes.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2025
Answer published
The government does not have a numerical target for reducing the number of empty homes.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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