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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many houses are recorded as (a) empty or (b) second homes for the purposes of council tax in (i) Romford constituency, (ii) the London Borough of Havering and (iii) Greater London.

We publish data on the number of empty homes and second homes for the purposes of council tax at a local authority level. Figures for Greater London can be aggregated from the local authority level data provided in the ‘Data’ tab.

The latest council tax base data, from a snapshot taken in October 2021, can be found at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1032557/Local_Authorities_Council_Taxbase_2021_Drop_down.xlsx . Empty properties can be found in Line 15 and second homes can be found in Line 11.