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HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)Amendment 52 amends clause 39(9) of the Bill to clarify that any payment by a commonhold unit owner to a commonhold association is not to be regarded as an estate management…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)Sadly, I confess to not having that knowledge from back when I was at university; I probably was not studying the right things. I appreciate the point from my hon. Friend the…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)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 (Eighth sitting)I absolutely appreciate the point that has been made. There is a balance to be struck here. Obviously we will need to go through the justice impact test, or whatever it is called,…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 48, in clause 30, page 50, line 14, leave out subsections (4) and (5). This amendment is consequential on Amendment 123.25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for his question, and, because of its specifical legal and technical nature, I will write to him. I know that members of the Committee may…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I apologise for not covering that point; I intended to do so. It is £5,000 per challenge. There is the ability to bring forward multiple challenges. Should that be the case,…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)We have already talked about this, but in summary, most landlords are required under the terms of the lease to provide leaseholders with a written statement of accounts. Where…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her question. Yes, that is my understanding, and, as part of the response in writing, we will clarify that. To conclude, new section 21E places an…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for his amendment. When I was a councillor in a location not too far away from him a number of years ago, I had similar experiences with the…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 am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfordshire and the hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich for tabling their amendments. I share their basic conceptual…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his comments in that regard. To save time, the same logic applies from our perspective to amendments 13 and 14, and I hope that at least in…25 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)I do not seek to detain the Committee, and I hope the hon. Gentleman will accept my short response. I am not disregarding the substantive points of the amendment, but some of them…25 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkMy right hon. Friend highlights a continuing challenge with the local plan-making process where other actors have issues and considerations. The planning system will never be…23 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkI will certainly take that point away, but I hope the right hon. Gentleman will accept that there always a balance about what to put in primary legislation. The law cannot mandate…23 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkI am absolutely certain that there will be more cases for exceptional circumstances put forward in the future, and I encourage councils to consider them if they believe that they…23 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her comments. Many colleagues in the House will have experienced solar farms, both on a constituency basis and from a national policy…23 Jan 2024HANSARDRevised National Planning FrameworkI thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Dame Maria Miller) for securing the debate and for the excellent speech she just delivered on behalf of her constituents.…23 Jan 2024