My Lords, we are really close to the end. This is a very similar amendment to one that I proposed in Committee. In following on from what the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, said about the meeting with the Minister, I also had a meeting with the Minister half an hour before the election was announced, in which it was indicated that there was some interest by the Government in supporting this amendment. It is, of course, frustrating to be in this position in wash-up with regard to some of these details. For example, it was said only last week that, even if we were not going to get peppercorn ground rent, we might have had a very low £250 ground rent. We were all anticipating that Report would be a very positive and creative time to improve this Bill.

That was not to be the case; but for whoever takes on this brief in the future, the implication earlier today in some of the crosser exchanges was that nobody had thought about the implications of what this Bill was about. Many of us are bored of thinking of the implications and this issue has gone on for decades and decades and decades. Political parties of both sides have promised that they would resolve some of the anomalies associated with leasehold and move us on to commonhold. We are now in a situation where, through bad luck, we cannot have a full discussion on this particular Bill—it was inadequate anyway. At least we got it into wash-up, and I say simply that I found the department, the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, and the noble Lord, Lord Gascoigne, to be incredibly helpful.

It has been really enjoyable to be on the same side as the Liberal Democrats, the Labour Party and many people in the Conservative Party who all want to resolve this question. I hold those who will become the new Government to account for making sure that we get over the blips of this particularly limited Bill and resolve it. Because this will be the last time I speak, I say an enormous thank you to the tenacity and resilience of the leaseholder campaigners who have really put a huge amount in. They are not official lobbyists; they are not professionals. They are ordinary British citizens who made that terrible mistake of buying a flat or a house, not realising what leasehold would really mean for them. In many instances, this was financial penury and a lack of control, accountability and autonomy over their lives. I hope that the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Bailey, lives to see another day and that the accountable person issues will be sorted out. This will all be resolved by commonhold in the future—whoever brings it in.