Sean Woodcock

Sean Woodcock

Labour — Banbury

Speaking in the House of Commons on 13 November 2026

Debate

Homes and Planning Bill

Contribution

My hon. Friend is making a really important speech about empty homes. We all have homes in our constituencies that have been empty in the long term that we want brought back into use, but is the reality not that there are generally far too few empty homes across the country? Just 1% of houses are empty, so what the Government need to do, which I support, is build more homes in the first place so that we can house people properly.

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