Question follow-through · 96205

Admiralty House: Empty Property

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many months each of the Ministerial flats in Admiralty House have been empty for.

answeredCabinet Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
2 Dec 2025
Target answer date
4 Dec 2025
Answer
23 Dec 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many months each of the Ministerial flats in Admiralty House have been empty for.

  2. 4 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Official residences are allocated to Ministers at the Prime Minister's discretion, to support them in their official duties. This has been the case under decades of successive governments, and it is not usual practice to publish specific dates of their oc...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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