Question follow-through · 99005
Leasehold: Ground Rent
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what evaluation his Department has made of the need to ensure that planned reforms to the leasehold system address the matter of leaseholders struggling to sell share-of-freehold
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what evaluation his Department has made of the need to ensure that planned reforms to the leasehold system address the matter of leaseholders struggling to sell share-of-freehold
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The government is committed to addressing unregulated and unaffordable ground rents and we will do this in legislation. We will set out further details on our detailed plans for existing ground rents in due course.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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