New Clause 5 - Power to establish a Right to Manage regime for freeholders on private or mixed-use estates

Part of Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 2:45 pm ar 30 Ionawr 2024.

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Photo of Richard Fuller Richard Fuller Ceidwadwyr, North East Bedfordshire 2:45, 30 Ionawr 2024

I am listening carefully to the Minister, as I did to the shadow Minister. The current Minister says he is sympathetic to the intentions, but I take his point that it is the wrong new clause, so I will oppose it if it is pressed to a vote. However, the shadow Minister said that the Minister’s predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for Redditch, said on the Floor of the House that she was sympathetic to the measure. That is two up. Will the Minister outline what the impediments might be? Will he give some reassurance that by the time we get to Report the Government may have turned sympathy into action? By the way, I think it is empathy, not sympathy.