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HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Seventh sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. Notwithstanding the tone of my responses, given the Committee’s interest I will happily write to it to make sure there is clarity…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I am happy to ask the Department to look into that in further detail. I have no personal understanding of whether that would be possible or reasonable and proportionate and not…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the hon. Member for his amendment. Even though I will not be accepting it today, it raises an important question and he is right to allow us to debate it. We absolutely…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is making a number of important points. As it is currently structured, one challenge of n people gets up to £5,000; if it is multiple challenges of one person…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)They are two separate challenges. If a challenge goes to the tribunal and it is deemed that a penalty should apply, for whatever reason or whatever poor behaviour, and a penalty…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for amendments 19 to 25, with which, as he indicated, he seeks to adds clarity that any sums paid to the leaseholder where there is a failure to comply…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Seventh sitting)Clause 25 complements clause 24 by removing the risk that the change of jurisdiction for right to manage disputes to the tribunal will be circumvented through applications being…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)As best as I understand it, the situation is exactly as my hon. Friend describes. The threshold is lower, and therefore the provisions are more proportionate, and evidence of…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for his amendment, which he has just outlined. The Government are sympathetic to the intention of the amendment. It is not that we do not understand the…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Seventh sitting)Again, these amendments mostly simplify and clarify the provisions in schedule 7. Amendment 97 provides that in the event that there is a failure to vary the lease in response to…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Seventh sitting)The tribunal needs the power to order compliance with obligations under the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. Clause 24 amends section 107(1) of that Act to enable the…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 36 sets out general provisions that apply to regulation-making powers under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. Subsection (2) introduces a new section 37A, which sets out…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I will try to reassure the hon. Gentleman. I think we both agree on the intention behind full transparency and clarity, so that things are not being hidden in the “value chain,”…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. I will not try to solutionise in Committee, given the inherent dangers doing so from the Government Front Bench. We have committed to…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I turn first to amendment 151, in the name of the hon. Member for Brent North. As someone who has held the building safety portfolio in my Department for the past 16 months, one…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)We know that there is currently a lack of transparency around administration charges and that leaseholders can face high administration charges. Administration charges must be…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)Amendment 48 is consequential on amendment 123, which we discussed in our debate on part 2. Amendment 123 ensures that the Bill is clear for the reader by grouping a set of…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend has a huge amount of expertise and knowledge in this area. I am grateful to her for all her work in preparing for our discussion today. I am very happy to talk to…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)We know that leaseholders can be deterred from challenging costs, or the services that their landlord provides, at court or tribunal for fear that they will also be charged their…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his questions. I will write to him on the answers or the process by which he can get them. Question put and agreed to. Clause 33…25 Jan 2024