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1713039

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he last met the Law Commission to discuss leasehold reform.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	23272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill delivers the most impactful of the Law Commission’s recommendations on enfranchisement, which will make it cheaper for leaseholders to buy their freehold or extend their lease, and the Right to Manage. This includes increasing the non-residential limit to 50% to give more leaseholders the right to take over management and changing the rules to make each party pay their own process and litigation costs, saving leaseholders many thousands of pounds.</p><p>The Government has and will continue to set out its position on leasehold reform as part of the continued progress of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 23273 23274 question first answered 01/05/2024 13:32:02 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1713040

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many of the recommendations made by the Law Commission in its report on leasehold enfranchisement, entitled Commonhold and the right to manage, published on 21 July 2020, have been incorporated into the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	23273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill delivers the most impactful of the Law Commission’s recommendations on enfranchisement, which will make it cheaper for leaseholders to buy their freehold or extend their lease, and the Right to Manage. This includes increasing the non-residential limit to 50% to give more leaseholders the right to take over management and changing the rules to make each party pay their own process and litigation costs, saving leaseholders many thousands of pounds.</p><p>The Government has and will continue to set out its position on leasehold reform as part of the continued progress of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 23272 23274 question first answered 01/05/2024 13:32:02 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1701635

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many high streets in local authority ownership will be affected by an increase in the non-residential limit for collective enfranchisement under proposed leasehold reforms.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
uin	HL3866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment for the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill was published on 11 December 2023 and is available on the Parliament website at: <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3523/publications" target="_blank">Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament</a>. The Impact Assessment considers the non-monetised impact of increasing the non-residential for collective enfranchisement claims including the potential impact on freeholders, high streets, and businesses.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL3867 HL3868 question first answered 29/04/2024 16:41:45 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name HL3866 - Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament.pdf title Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
tabling member	228 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Goss Moor

1701636

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which overseas investors will benefit from an increase in the non-residential limit for collective enfranchisement under proposed leasehold reforms.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
uin	HL3867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment for the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill was published on 11 December 2023 and is available on the Parliament website at: <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3523/publications" target="_blank">Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament</a>. The Impact Assessment considers the non-monetised impact of increasing the non-residential for collective enfranchisement claims including the potential impact on freeholders, high streets, and businesses.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL3866 HL3868 question first answered 29/04/2024 16:41:45 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name HL3866 - Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament.pdf title Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
tabling member	228 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Goss Moor

1697896

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Leasehold reforms give more rights and protections to homeowners, published on 27 November 2023, when he plans to bring forward legislative measures to amend the Building Safety Act 2022 to make it easier to ensure that those who caused building-safety defects in enfranchised buildings are made to pay.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	19947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>Under Part 5 of the Building Safety Act 2022 leaseholders in enfranchised buildings, either individually or collectively, can pursue developers – and their associated companies – via a remediation contribution order, for funds they have spent or will spend remediating their buildings for relevant defects.</p><p>We are building on the legislation brought forward by the Act. The Government has tabled several amendments for the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill to clarify and extend the protections in some specific areas. These amendments will further prevent freeholders and developers from escaping their liabilities to fund building remediation work – protecting leaseholders by allowing the Building Safety Act 2022 to operate as intended, as well as adding further protections in some specific scenarios.</p><p>For example, we have made clear that a remediation contribution order can, among other things, order the landlord or developer to make payments for the costs of:</p><ul><li>steps which reduce the risk of a relevant defect;</li><li>obtaining an expert report; and,</li><li>temporary alternative accommodation and associated costs in connection with a decant from a building in connection with a relevant defect.</li></ul> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 28/03/2024 13:22:01 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1696580

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the proposed removal of marriage value under proposed leasehold reforms on (1) property investors and (2) foreign investors.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
uin	HL3337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2024 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment for the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill was published on 11 December 2023 and is available on the Parliament website (attached) at: <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3523/publications" target="_blank">Leasehold and Freehold ReformBill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament</a>. This includes an estimate of the impact of removing marriage value on different groups and regions.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL3338 question first answered 03/04/2024 14:57:26 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name HL3337& HL3338- Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament.pdf title Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
tabling member	228 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Goss Moor

1696581

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of which region will see the largest transfer of marriage value from freeholder to leaseholder under proposed leasehold reforms.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
uin	HL3338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2024 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment for the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill was published on 11 December 2023 and is available on the Parliament website (attached) at: <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3523/publications" target="_blank">Leasehold and Freehold ReformBill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament</a>. This includes an estimate of the impact of removing marriage value on different groups and regions.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL3337 question first answered 03/04/2024 14:57:26 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name HL3337& HL3338- Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament.pdf title Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
tabling member	228 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Goss Moor

1696426

registered interest
date	15/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will extend the right to enfranchisement under the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill to leases which are in form agricultural but in essence residential.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	18912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>We are not currently proposing to do so but I would be happy to meet my Hon Friend to discuss his concern in more detail, should that be helpful.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 25/03/2024 11:27:13 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1692841

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 29 February 2024 to Question 15306, which organisations (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have met on reforms to the leasehold system; and whether any of those organisations made representations to his Department requesting that the leasehold system be maintained.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	16386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-02-22/15306" target="_blank">15306</a> on 29 February 2024.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 05/03/2024 15:53:34 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1687581

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to insure that leasehold reform initiatives are (a) inclusive and (b) consider the diverse needs of (i) leaseholders from minority backgrounds and (ii) all other leaseholders.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	13091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>Whilst we will always fulfil our obligations under relevant legislation, we have simply got to move away from identity politics infecting every facet of public discourse. The Government is committed to reforming leasehold for everyone, irrespective of background or any other characteristic.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13090 question first answered 13/02/2024 18:58:58 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi