Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill

My Lords, this amendment is on commonhold. I was pleased to hear the Minister emphasise that the ...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 14. First, I apologise that I was away for Second Reading...

My Lords, I do not have an amendment in this group, but it is almost therapeutic when your Lordsh...

My Lords, I will make a brief intervention to support the thinking behind Amendment 14, in the na...

My Lords, I too was unable to speak at Second Reading, and I apologise for that. However, I was a...

My Lords, I have a number of interests to declare: first, as a leaseholder, secondly, as chair of...

My Lords, I agree fundamentally with the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Stevena...

My Lords, I forgot to mention earlier how much I support the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham. I...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, for introducing this group of amendments. It ...

My Lords, Amendment 13 concerns the conversion of existing leasehold buildings to commonhold. I t...

My Lords, I forgot to declare my interest as a leaseholder. I feel as though I might have to decl...

My response to the noble Earl, Lord Devon, was a response on commonhold. My response to the noble...

Maybe my noble friend the Minister can give us some detail on the Government’s new-found support ...

I thank my noble friend for that. As I have said, we are working on it, we are working on further...

If I can just probe the Minister on the answer she gave me, that the Commonhold Council met in Se...

I do not have that detail with me, but I will make sure the noble Lord gets it.

Can the Minister tell the Committee whether the Government have a strategy for commonhold?

Yes. The noble Lord knows, and I have said it enough times at this Dispatch Box, that the Governm...

It is good to hear that they have a strategy; maybe the Minister can explain to the Committee wha...

My Lords—

I am sorry, but I asked a couple of questions there and I am hoping for a response.

I am sorry, but I have made it very clear that the Government are fully in support. I am trying t...

But we are not, are we? That is the whole point. We are not getting anywhere, just making commitm...

Working on getting towards commonhold, which is what the Government want for this sector.

The noble Baroness will obviously know this really well, then: how many more years do we need bef...

I do not think I have anything further to add.

My Lords, the purpose of Amendment 13 in my name was to encourage a debate on commonhold and the ...

It was 1880, with Henry Broadhurst.

I do not think that that was a legislative proposal—I was very careful in the words I used. What ...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

16: Clause 27, page 18, line 8, at end insert—

My Lords, to be clear, the Bill already removes the automatic 12-month bar on leaseholders that s...

My Lords, our Amendment 17 would enable the Secretary of State—or, in Wales, Welsh Ministers—to c...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 17A. I am sorry that I was unable to speak at Second Reading...

My Lords, I will speak in support of my right reverend friend the Bishop of Manchester, who is un...

My Lords, I turn to my Amendment 18 in this group. I begin by declaring my interests as both the ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a long-standing leaseholder of some 30 years. I have been a le...

My Lords, I will speak to this group, as the noble Lord, Lord Truscott, mentioned my name, althou...

My Lords, this is my first intervention today—I spoke at Second Reading. I regret that this is ye...

My Lords, the descriptions that have been put forward—the right reverend Prelate described these ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions, and I start by thanking especially the...

Moved by

Lord Gascoigne

19: Schedule 3, page 151, line 13, at end insert—

“(ea)...

My Lords, before I start, I declare that my wife is an employee at the Crown Estate, as set out i...

I thank my fellow east Lancastrian, the Minister, for introducing these technical, tidying-up and...

I have spoken ad nauseam about many of these amendments. I too thank my long-lost brother from ea...

Moved by

Lord Gascoigne

20: Schedule 3, page 152, line 17, leave out paragraph (f)