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51.
Mr. Loyden
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has any proposals to take powers to require owners to utilise empty private properties.
Mr. Michael Spicer
No. It is in owners' interest to make such properties available for renting, rather than keeping them empty, thanks to the changes to private renting legislation we made in the Housing Act 1988.