Question follow-through · 3689
Social Rented Housing: Empty Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take legislative steps to provide new powers for councils to help bring more long-term empty homes into use.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 20 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2026 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take legislative steps to provide new powers for councils to help bring more long-term empty homes into use.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 104908 on 19 January 2026.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Private Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance
16 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his planned timetable is for Awaab's Law to be implemented within the private rented sector.