Alex Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alex Cunningham on 2016-01-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what savings his Department has made as a result of the Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007 in each of the last five financial years.
Mr Marcus Jones
In July 2012 the Department for Communities and Local Government published a post – legislative assessment of the then Government’s Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007 which can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/236094/8411.pdf
We do not hold the figures requested. Details of empty property rate relief granted can be found at the following link:
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