Holiday Accommodation

(asked on 19th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the number of short term holiday lets operating in (a) 2023, (b) 2022 and (c) 2021.


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John Whittingdale
This question was answered on 4th September 2023

In 2022, the government held a Call for Evidence on developing a tourist accommodation registration scheme in England, with one of the aims being to better understand the size of the short-term lets market.

The results of the Call for Evidence, published in April 2023, highlighted that there is no single, definitive source of data on short-term lets in England. Based on the analysis of responses to the call for evidence, there were approximately 257,000 short-term and holiday letting listings in England in 2022. Since the Call for Evidence, the government has consulted on the design and implementation of a registration scheme for short term lets, which will improve our understanding of the short term letting market.

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