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 Democrat — Wokingham
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 PennycookMy 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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