Question follow-through · 36939
Leasehold: Service Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to prevent freeholders holding leaseholders liable for outstanding service charges incurred by the previous leaseholder.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 7 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
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to prevent freeholders holding leaseholders liable for outstanding service charges incurred by the previous leaseholder.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
The seller of a leasehold property is legally responsible for service charges owed up until the completion of the sale to the next leaseholder. A freeholder cannot require a leaseholder to pay charges owed by the previous leaseholder if the new leaseholde...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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