Housing: Office Conversions Debate

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Housing: Office Conversions

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United Nations World Humanitarian Summit
Wednesday 2nd December 2015

(8 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, is the unused office space that could be used for housing counted in the empty dwelling figures? If not, should it be as one indicator of what new build is required?

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My Lords, as far as I am aware, it is not counted in the empty dwelling figures because at that point in time it is not dwellings.

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