New Clause 32 - Premises to which leasehold right to manage applies

Part of Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 3:45 pm ar 30 Ionawr 2024.

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Photo of Lee Rowley Lee Rowley Minister of State (Minister for Housing) 3:45, 30 Ionawr 2024

I am grateful to the hon. Member for Brent North for moving the new clause. The Government support the aim of the amendment to improve leaseholders’ rights. As he indicates, we are taking forward key recommendations of the Law Commission to do that. The Bill takes forward the most significant measures to increase access to the right to manage and makes it simpler and cheaper for leaseholders to make a claim.

To implement the wider recommendations, the Government need to proceed carefully and undertake further work to ensure that the regime will operate satisfactorily. The Government will keep the remaining recommendations from the Law Commission’s right to manage report under consideration following the implementation of the Bill’s provisions. I thank the hon. Member for bringing forward the amendment, but I hope that because the most significant measures have already been introduced, he may be convinced enough not to push the new clause to a vote.