| Heading: |
Retail Trade: Empty Property |
| Question ID: |
1813964 |
| UIN: |
60963 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5055 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Max Wilkinson
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| Asking Member handle: |
mpmwilko
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@mpmwilko
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to require overseas landlords who own empty retail units to engage with local authorities. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-24 |
| 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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
This government has introduced High Street Rental Auctions, powers available to local authorities in England to require landlords, regardless of their country of residence, to rent out vacant commercial premises. As a deterrent it is a criminal offence fo... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |