Question follow-through · 69185
New Homes Ombudsman: Freehold
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to expand the (a) remit and (b) powers of the New Homes Ombudsman to include freehold homeowners with unresolved structural issues.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to expand the (a) remit and (b) powers of the New Homes Ombudsman to include freehold homeowners with unresolved structural issues.
22 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jul 2025
Answer published
In October 2024, this government committed to establish a statutory New Homes Ombudsman which will give homeowners improved access to redress. The government will set out further details in due course.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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