Housing: Office Conversions

Lord Spicer Excerpts

Wednesday 2nd December 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Spicer (Con)]

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?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

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.