Question follow-through · 8407
Leasehold: Service Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on increasing the rights of leaseholders to challenge the reasonablene
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 9 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on increasing the rights of leaseholders to challenge the reasonablene
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Governments intend to act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights, powers, and protections over their homes by implementing the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. These include a new right to a lease extension for leas...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Local Government: Working Hours
21 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has had discussions with local authorities that are (a) trialing and (b) intend to trial a four-day working week.
Polling Stations: Visual Impairment
5 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will ensure that (a) audio and (b) tactile solutions are available at polling stations to enable (i) blind and (ii) partially sighted voters to vote (A) indepen
Community Relations
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help strengthen communities after the riots in August 2024.
Tenants: Overcharging
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to require landlords and managing agents to pay automatic compensation to tenants when overcharging occurs.
Tenants: Overcharging
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to pay automatic compensation to all tenants when landlords and managing agents are slow to reimburse tenants after overcharging.
Service Charges
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to cap service charge rises annually at the rate of CPI inflation.
Service Charges: Billing
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to extend to ten years the time limits for tenants and residents to request invoices and receipts in relation to service charges.
Service Charges: Audit
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to require (a) all service charge accounts to be audited every year by independent accountants and (b) that the cost of this audit
Homelessness: Children
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help end child homelessness.
Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to require building and health and safety standards in (a) emergency and (b) temporary accommodation provided to homeless families
Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to increase the funding for services supporting victims of domestic abuse.
Housing First: Pilot Schemes
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Housing First pilot schemes; and whether she plans to expand those schemes.