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773915

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of new houses sold as leasehold properties in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	108663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>Information on the number of transactions on new build houses where the property was sold as leaseholds is available through Land Registry Price Paid data. This data is available from 1995 onwards.</p><p>This information can be accessed here: <a href="https://data.gov.uk/dataset/land-registry-monthly-price-paid-data" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/dataset/land-registry-monthly-price-paid-data</a></p><p>The Department for Communities and Local Government has recently concluded a public consultation, <em>Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market</em>, which sought views on a range of proposed measures to help tackle abuse of the leasehold system including the sale of new build leasehold houses. The responses are being analysed and Government will publish an official response in due course<strong>. </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/11/2017 17:17:52 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 17314 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

776849

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with house-builders on sales of (a) leasehold houses and (b) freeholds to other companies after purchases are completed.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	109276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, met with the Home Builders Federation on 12 September to discuss ending the development of new build leasehold houses and the 'Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market' consultation, which referred to developers selling on freehold interests to third parties after a lease has been purchased.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 30/10/2017 17:50:26 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 18706 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

774344

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to improve the consumer rights of freeholders purchasing new build homes.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
	uin	108901
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>It is vital that as housing supply increases, the quality of new build homes continues to improve. In our Housing White paper, published earlier this year, we set out our ambition for a housing market that works for everyone. We expect all housing developers to deliver good quality housing, to deliver it on time, and to treat house buyers fairly.</p><p>Where something goes wrong, house builders and warranty providers should fulfil their obligations to put this right. The industry-led Consumer Code for Homebuilders, where applicable, also provides protection to purchasers of new homes.</p><p>Last year the All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment produced a report called <em>More Homes, Fewer Complaints</em>, which made a series of recommendations to improve quality and redress. One of their recommendations was to establish a New Homes Ombudsman. We are considering this as part of our wider ambition to improve redress arrangements in all parts of the housing market.</p><p>We also want to make the homebuying process cheaper, faster and less stressful. In October we launched a call for evidence on the home buying and selling process in order to gather views from industry about areas for improvement, and from the public about parts of the process they find most difficult to navigate.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 30/10/2017 16:56:14 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

731991

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to review regulations on the purchase of (a) leasehold properties and (b) the sale of freeholds to third parties by property developers.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government identified that tackling onerous ground rents and leasehold houses were priorities in the Housing White Paper.</p><p>We are also working closely with the Law Commission on leasehold reform, building on their 13<sup>th</sup> programme of law reform consultation which had a significant response – over 1,000 submissions – on residential leasehold.</p><p>We are reviewing issues relating to leasehold and will provide further information shortly.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 29/06/2017 09:21:57 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 386 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn