Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to implement a register of second homes.

The Department has no current plans to implement a register of second homes. The Government recognises that large numbers of second homes concentrated in a single area can have a negative effect on local communities and has introduced a number of measures to help mitigate those effects, including introducing higher rates of Stamp Duty Land Tax for those purchasing additional properties.