Empty Houses

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:40 pm on 11 March 2020.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 2:40, 11 March 2020

Minister, like Llyr, I was looking at the data for 2018-19, and it is quite disappointing. It's a challenging area—empty homes in the private sector and asking local authorities to use their various financial mechanisms to get some of these homes back in use—but there's a variation in performance. The Isle of Anglesey brought 12 per cent of their private properties that were not in use back into use; 1.6 per cent in Conwy; 8.6 per cent in Denbighshire; and 5.6 per cent in Wrexham. So there's quite a variety there, and I do hope that the best practice is improved further and then adopted by the other authorities.