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HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in this debate and to hear from such eminent experience across the Committee on this issue. On one of the points made by the noble…01 May 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, that this will not finally be resolved until we get rid of this leasehold regime. Some of the most heart-rending cases I…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I shall speak to our Amendment 103, and comment on others in this group. I thank the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, for his careful and thoughtful consideration of how we…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bailey, for his passion on this matter, as the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, said. It is appropriate to bring a probing amendment on this,…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I listened carefully to the Minister’s response, and I am grateful to her for going through each amendment in detail. However, having spent many hours in this Chamber…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, the amendments in this group concentrate on yet another aspect of the regime that fleeces home owners with unexpected and extortionate charges, but in this case, they…29 Apr 2024HANSARDAffordable Housing: SupplyMy Lords, I add my welcome, or croeso, to the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Llanfaes, and thank her for her excellent speech. I do not share her youth, sadly, or her hair colour…25 Apr 2024HANSARDAffordable Housing: SupplyI rise to make a brief intervention. The Minister is once again using the term “affordable homes”. Does she mean under the current six definitions of affordable homes—five of…25 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI am sure the Minister understands that this has dragged on and on, and we are now at a very late stage of a Bill that has already gone all the way through the Commons. Quite…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, this debate has again outlined what a huge benefit it would be to have proper, detailed pre-legislative scrutiny of Bills such as this. I hope that will take place when…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI thank the noble Lord for that reply to my amendments. I am grateful for his reassurance about the costs relating to the difference between the low-value claim and where it ends…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, we welcome the new costs regime provided for by provisions in the Bill, because, as things stand, there is no balance of power: the playing field is tilted very much in…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lady Andrews for the collaborative way in which she has prepared and worked on her amendment, and drawn the attention of the House…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I am grateful, as ever, to the Minister for her responses. It seems she is going to be very busy over the next few weeks, having all these meetings with all of us. I…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, our amendments in this group go to the heart of one of the current serious injustices relating to leasehold: that of forfeiture. It is quite simply anachronistic, wholly…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, for supporting these amendments and the noble Lords, Lord Truscott, Lord Kennedy and…24 Apr 2024