Squatting

(asked on 4th July 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the provisions preventing squatting in residential buildings to non-residential premises.


Answered by
Dominic Raab Portrait
Dominic Raab
This question was answered on 12th July 2016

The Government has no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to extend the offence of squatting in the way suggested.

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