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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number empty dwellings in (a) Bath, (b) Birmingham, (c) Bradford, (d) Brighton and Hove, (e) Bristol, (f) Cambridge, (g) Canterbury, (h) Carlisle, (i) Chester, (j) Chichester, (k) the City of London, (l) Coventry, (m) Derby, (n) Durham, (o) Ely, (p) Exeter, (q) Gloucester, (r) Hereford, (s) Kingston upon Hull, (t) Lancaster, (u) Leeds, (v) Leicester, (w) Lichfield, (x) Lincoln, (y) Liverpool, (z) Manchester, (aa) Newcastle upon Tyne, (bb) Norwich, (cc) Nottingham, (dd) Oxford, (ee) Peterborough, (ff) Plymouth, (gg) Portsmouth, (hh) Preston, (ii) Ripon, (jj) Salford, (kk) Salisbury, (ll) Sheffield, (mm) Southampton, (nn) St Albans, (oo) Stoke-on-Trent, (pp) Sunderland, (qq) Truro, (rr) Wakefield, (ss) Wells, (tt) Westminster, (uu) Winchester (vv) Wolverhampton, (ww) Worcester and (xx) York.

Statistics on vacant dwellings in England and in each local authority district are published in the Department’s live table 615 which is available at the following link. This table shows the annual total numbers of empty homes and those vacant longer than six months and also vacant dwellings in the local authority, housing association and other public sector tenures.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants

The number of homes vacant for more than six months is now at its lowest level since records began, with over 116,000 long term empty properties brought back in to use since 2009.