How many houses in your vicinity have been unoccupied for more than six months?
A serious question really. How does the government decide how many "new" houses need to be built if they do not know how many houses, (and their location) are empty? There may be a valid reason for the house or flat to be empty, but after six months they should be on a register, regardless of whether it is usually rented out or waiting to be purchased. Any dwelling still on the register after a further six months could raise questions (sympathetically) as to why.
If sympathetic questions get nowhere, we send Drago round there.
As a member of a parliament
I put this question before the House
at Pooh Corner.