Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of empty properties in (a) Bristol North West constituency and (b) Bristol.

Statistics on vacant dwellings in England and in each local authority district, including Bristol, are published in the Department's live table 615 which is available at the following link.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants

This table shows the annual total numbers of empty homes and those vacant longer than six months and also vacant in the local authority, housing association and other public sector tenures:

Data is collected only at local authority district level and is not available by parliamentary constituency.

The number of vacant dwellings and long-term dwellings, for the City of Bristol and England, are shown in Tables 1 and 2.

Table 1: All vacant dwellings, City of Bristol and England, 5 Oct 2009 to 7 Oct 2013

Table 2: All long-term vacant dwellings, City of Bristol and England, 5 Oct 2009 to 7 Oct 2013