Question follow-through · 15206
Leasehold: Forfeiture
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to reform the leasehold law on forfeiture.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 29 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to reform the leasehold law on forfeiture.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
Yes, the government is committed to removing the disproportionate and draconian threat of forfeiture as a means of ensuring compliance with a lease agreement.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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