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Service Charges: Overcharging

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the SHAC 2025 review of First Tier Tribunal decisions which identified an overcharging rate of 63% in service charge accounts; and what

answeredIqbal MohamedMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
15 Jun 2026
Answer
22 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the SHAC 2025 review of First Tier Tribunal decisions which identified an overcharging rate of 63% in service charge accounts; and what

  2. 15 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 22 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    My Department has made no specific assessment of the review in question. The government recognises the considerable financial strain that rising services charges place on leaseholders and tenants. The level of service charge that leaseholders pay depends ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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