Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 122972

Affordable Housing: Empty Property

Tabled: 23 March 2026
Answered: 31 March 2026

Question

Clive Jones

Liberal DemocratWokingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many affordable housing units have been built which have never been occupied because no housing association has taken them on.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
My Department does not hold comprehensive, historic data on social and affordable homes that have been completed but remain unoccupied because a registered provider has not contracted with a housebuilder to acquire them. I otherwise refer the hon. Member ...

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