Clause 42 - Limitation of estate management charges: consultation requirements

Part of Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:00 am ar 30 Ionawr 2024.

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Photo of Lee Rowley Lee Rowley Minister of State (Minister for Housing) 10:00, 30 Ionawr 2024

The hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich encourages me to seek to overturn decisions of the Supreme Court! That could start a whole heap of discussion early on a Tuesday morning, but I will withhold further comment for now.

The hon. Member is absolutely right that clause 42 is intended to mirror section 20 of the 1985 Act. He is correct that the intention is to consider written responses as well; I hope that that reassures him. We will need to go through a consultation process: although we have said that our intention is to mirror section 20 of the 1985 Act to give confidence about the direction of travel, what is appropriate for these individual circumstances will need to be discussed, and I hope that we can pick up that discussion within the consultation.