So it is clear that a vacant home simply means that a tenancy has been given up and that, as a consequence, there is a vacancy. However, it may never be empty, because a tenant might move out and another tenant might move in the very same day. In that case, of course, it may well be that that vacant home is not a surplus home.
Housing and Planning Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Shipley
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 10 March 2016.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Housing and Planning Bill.
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