PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mining: Subsidence (24 October 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many properties affected by subsidence have been compulsorily purchased by the Coal Authority in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Sir Alan Campbell (Labour)

Answer

The Coal Authority has no compulsory purchase powers in relation to subsidence and as such has not purchased any properties on that basis in the last five years.


Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
31 October 2016

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