Leasehold Reform

As my hon. Friend will know, in the north-west of England and north Wales, leasehold houses were ...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. He has been a tireless campaigner for his constituents ...

My constituent has been charged £80,000, on top of really expensive mortgage payments which have ...

The reality is that for so many of us—including myself as a constituency MP—there are few options...

As well as concerns for leaseholders, many people who own their homes have problems with manageme...

It is already a scandal happening in plain sight. For that reason, I hope that we will hear from ...

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I expect we will hear from my hon. Friend exactly what that has meant for her constituents.

I recently became aware of a situation in my constituency of a freeholder trying to do a lucrativ...

I agree; if we could just do what we have been promising for a long time, the reality for my hon....

We have had a further commitment from the Government along similar lines. In response to a Select...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the work that his Committee has done on this issue over a lon...

My hon. Friend is setting out a compelling case for why leasehold needs to be consigned to the du...

My hon. Friend is right. People who have bought their own home should have the right to change th...

My hon. Friend is being generous with her time. I have met many people, particularly first-time b...

That story illustrates so well that that form of tenure—that feudal, archaic system—has become ho...

A fair housing market that works for everyone is at the heart of this Government’s central missio...

What does the Minister say to leaseholders living in a cost of living crisis, with an increase in...

I do not know the detail about the particular situation that the hon. Lady outlined, but I would ...

I will give way in a moment, but will make a bit of progress first. There is broad agreement acro...

I am pleased that the Government have good intentions, but the Select Committee’s 2019 report had...

I am grateful to my neighbour, the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts). He pre-empts ...

The Minister will have heard my intervention earlier. I accept he is talking about leasehold refo...

The hon. Lady makes a strong point and I will come to that in a moment. We have shared concerns a...

As I mentioned earlier, when many of these leasehold houses were sold, the purchasers were promis...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a strong point about the importance of reform. This is one of the ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Minister, for whom I have a great deal of time and respect, b...

My right hon. Friend highlights the importance of reform in this area and the cross-party nature ...

I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me for asking this question in this debate, but I wonder ...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. I have hundreds of park homes in my constituency, and I ...

Eighteen Members are trying to catch my eye, so please keep to seven minutes or so. I want to sta...

The Minister has spoken of a lot of support and commitment to doing something at some stage in th...

I thank the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts) for his contribution. I also thank th...

I declare an interest, as both a leaseholder and the owner of one buy-to-let flat. I have the dir...

The point is well made. I am sorry to go on for slightly longer than I ought, Mr Deputy Speaker, ...

The hon. Gentleman is an authority on this subject. Is he saying that the reason there is no urge...

To a certain extent, I agree with that, but perhaps we can take it up another time or the hon. Ge...

For most people, buying a house is the single largest investment that they make in their lives. N...

I am most grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is making a number of very good...

I will cover that in more detail later, but it was a point that was raised by my right hon. Frien...

The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Competition and Markets Authority investigated th...

I totally agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I agreed with the Select Committee’s recommendations...

I think for many years, many of us thought leasehold was an issue affecting London and other citi...

Promised, delayed, watered down or undelivered—this seems to be the journey of many of the Govern...

I agree with what the Minister said about the Government’s plans. It is good that we have cross-p...

May I add one point, which I hope my hon. Friend will not regard as discordant? People ought to k...

My hon. Friend is right: the way these companies operate is shameful.

The price of land is ...

Tomorrow, I will meet my constituent Luke Thomas, who is attending a drop-in in Parliament to rai...

My hon. Friend is making a very powerful speech, and she speaks passionately about her constituen...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. It is unfathomable that the Government, when faced w...

With regard to leasehold reform, I will speak briefly, if I may, on how many of the leaseholds in...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak in this extremely important debate on ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worse than that? The Government are not just sitting on thei...

I absolutely agree. It is an outrage that these promises give people hope, yet they turn into not...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for West Lancashire (Ashley Dalton), and I am pleased ...

The hon. Member rightly talks about transparency and the difficulties with contacting freeholders...

The hon. Gentleman reminds me of a recent situation with a development in Lymm, where the constit...

Like many across the Chamber today, I rise to speak on behalf of my constituents in the north-wes...

I call Ruth Cadbury.

3.12 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—sorry.

It has been a long day.

Oh, it has, Mr Deputy Speaker. It has been a long week—and it is only Tuesday.

It is over s...

It has been evident for years that the current leasehold system is failing. Indeed, it was the su...

Will my hon. Friend pay homage to the National Leasehold Campaign and the Leasehold Knowledge Par...

I thank my hon. Friend for that.

People have worked so hard, only to be disappointed after ...

The Levelling Up Secretary described leasehold as “feudal” and in need of reform. I am sure that ...

The last Liberal Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, launched a campaign against leasehold in 190...

I would like to start by taking the House back to 2012, when the right hon. Member for Welwyn Hat...

I recall, back in the 1980s, the scandal of endowment mortgages. Over the years, I have also owne...

In addition, the people who manage even large blocks need no qualifications, and there is no full...

The Father of the House is absolutely right. In one of the properties in which I was a leaseholde...

Does my hon. Friend share the frustration that many of my constituents face? When they try to set...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is incredibly complex and extremely expensive to go throug...

My hon. Friend mentioned sharp practices, which I mentioned to those on the Labour Front Bench at...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right about that, and I have examples of that in my constituency; le...

For nearly a decade before I was elected as the MP for Ealing North, I had the honour of serving ...

We now come to the wind-ups. I am sure that Members who have spoken in the debate will be arrivin...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a pleasure to close for the Opposition. I start by declari...

Now that we are all back, I want to reiterate once again how important it is for those who have c...

It is a pleasure to wind up this wide-ranging and impassioned debate on behalf of the Government....

Will the Minister give way?

I do not have much time, and I have a lot to get through, so I hope the hon. Gentleman will allow...

A false promise!

A false premise. It hinges on media speculation, as the hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (M...

Perhaps hon. Members would like to listen to the remarks I am about to make, because I am sure I ...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I might be old-fashioned, but I thought that when Mini...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his point of order. Obviously I am not responsible for the M...

I wanted to thank my colleagues on the Government Benches—it is a courtesy of the House that we d...

If Members will forgive me, I am attempting to answer the questions they have already asked me, b...

In her opening comments, the Minister referred to the reason why this motion has been tabled, whi...

If the hon. Member will allow me to answer the questions I have been asked, I will come to his po...

The Minister has just made two commitments. One is banning the sale of new leasehold homes, and t...

It is a commitment that I have made from this Dispatch Box, and the hon. Gentleman has heard me s...

I thank the Minister for giving way; she is being generous. I asked a specific question about Wal...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. He will know that we work closely with all the devol...

I think the House is still somewhat confused as to what the Government’s position is. The Ministe...

I refer the shadow Minister to the remarks I have literally just made on that point. I repeat tha...

Before I put the Question, I am sure that the Whips Office and those on the Treasury Bench will a...