A question on #MultipleOccupation tabled by Ben Obese-Jecty on 21-01-2025 has been answered by Matthew Pennycook.

Heading: Multiple Occupation
Question ID: 1757327
UIN: 25395
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-01-21
Asking Member ID: 5089
Asking Member display name: Ben Obese-Jecty
Asking Member handle: BenObeseJecty
Asking Member Twitter reference: @BenObeseJecty
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the conversion of a single property into a house of multiple occupancy increases the overall number of properties within the Government's housing stock figures.
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Date answered: 2025-01-29
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Is holding answer: false
Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4520
Answering Member display name: Matthew Pennycook
Answering Member handle: mtpennycook
Answering Member Twitter reference: @mtpennycook
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Answer text: The conversion of an existing residential property into a house of multiple occupancy would not normally count as a net additional dwelling in the official statistics on housing supply or dwelling stock estimates.Data for the housing supply release is col...
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Answering body ID: 7
Answering body name: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tweeted: true