Council Housing

(asked on 3rd June 2015) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how his Department defines a high-value council house; and how many such homes became vacant in each English region in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 8th June 2015

Through the Local Government Transparency Code we require all councils to be more transparent about the value of their social housing stock.

The Department has not made an estimate of the number of the most expensive third of local authority properties that will become vacant each year.

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