§ Mr. Nigel JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will provide a regional breakdown of the number of empty residential properties owned by Her Majesty's Government, indicating where those properties are located. [49244]
§ Mr. RaynsfordAs requested, the following table shows the location of empty residential properties owned by those Departments from which my Department collects figures, using their own regional definitions. Figures for other Government Departments are not collected centrally.
Location Number of properties Highways Agency: Northumberland, Cumbria, Durham, Tyne & Wear, Cleveland, North Yorkshire, North Humberside, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire 112 West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, West Midlands, Warwickshire and Hereford and Worcester 126 Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and South Humberside 148 Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Avon and Wiltshire 35 Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire 56 London 215 Home Office: North Region 59 Midland Region 50 South East/West and Wales 145 Ministry of Defence: South West 2,712 South East North 2,262 South East South 1,502 London/Aldershot 1,507 Eastern 3,023 Western 1,466 Scotland 1,252 Northern Ireland 302