Question follow-through · 76818
Service Charges: Codes of Practice
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to make adherence to the Service Charge Residential Management Code mandatory for residential leasehold property managers.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 22 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
12 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to make adherence to the Service Charge Residential Management Code mandatory for residential leasehold property managers.
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Sept 2025
Answer published
The current edition of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Service Charge Residential Management Code, approved in 2016 using powers under Section 87 of the Leasehold Reform and Urban Development Act 1993, may be used as evidence by the First-tier ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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