Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 18025

Empty Property

Tabled: 13 July 2026
Answered: 20 July 2026

Question

Sir James Cleverly

ConservativeBraintree

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) information his Department has and (b) what research his Department has commissioned on the amount of retail, hospitality and leisure hereditaments or business space whi

Answer

Nesil Caliskan
The Department does not collect such data and has not commissioned research to quantify vacancies nationally. It sometimes purchases commercial property market data, including vacancy information, from external providers to support internal policy develop...

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