Question follow-through · 3654
Social Rented Housing: Empty Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to bring empty properties back into use for social rent.
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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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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to bring empty properties back into use for social rent.
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 1064 on 26 May 2026.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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