| Heading: |
Business Premises: Empty Property |
| Question ID: |
1805799 |
| UIN: |
54578 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5361 |
| Asking Member display name: |
James McMurdock
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
James McMurdock
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that vacant commercial properties owned by institutional landlords do not inhibit small businesses' access to affordable premises. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4641 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Norris
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexJJNorris
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexJJNorris
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| Answer text: |
This Government is committed to revitalising our high streets and tackling vacancy. To that end, we have introduced High Street Rental Auctions, new powers for local authorities to bring vacant units back into use by auctioning the lease. We anticipate th... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |