Question follow-through · 26965
Service Charges: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a new regulator for service charges.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a new regulator for service charges.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement of 21 November 2024 (HCWS244), the government will consult on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act’s service charge and litigation costs provisions this year, bringing these measures into force as quickly as...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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