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HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I will, happily.30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Ninth sitting)Clause 61 gives the Secretary of State the power to make provision that is consequential on the Bill through regulations, including provision amending an Act of Parliament. We do…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)There is no doubt that there are challenges. There are always challenges with individual buildings, but there is a specific challenge here, which the hon. Gentleman has outlined.…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)After a number of days of often great agreement across the Committee, it is my job, unfortunately, to point out where we cannot agree, so I apologise for doing that again. The…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)Landlords and managing agents hold significant sums of leaseholder money, and it is right that they should be held to account for ensuring that such money must be managed…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Brent North for moving the new clause. The Government support the aim of the amendment to improve leaseholders’ rights. As he indicates, we…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Brent North for moving new clause 37. As he says, we have talked about the issue before, including on new clause 33, so I will not detain the…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfordshire for moving new clause 35. I share his concern that purchasers should know about estate management charges;…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Brent North for tabling new clause 38. I understand that he seeks to reduce landlords’ ability to frustrate right to manage claims. We all…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Brent North for moving the new clause. I heard the right hon. Member for East Ham make his case clearly on Second Reading, and I asked officials at the…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his new clause. As he has outlined, in share-of-freehold arrangements leaseholders will own the freehold in larger blocks; they are usually…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)As the hon. Member has outlined, we spoke about this issue on Thursday. I have a lot of sympathy for the point that he makes, and I think we agreed that we would explore it…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend highlights an important point. I think it is better that I write, but in principle, the transparency we seek to bring and the requirement to clearly articulate the…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has a huge amount of knowledge, expertise and background in the subject. She is right to highlight the tension with agency. As long as there…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)The Government recognise that the Law Commission did not think that there was a justification for keeping the exclusion in its current form and recommended its removal, as the…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)The principle of a right to participate is sound, and I think we all agree on that across both sides of the Committee. However, as with many of the new clauses, there are…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for outlining that in such detail. I will be brief and to the point. We are reviewing this, and I think that an important point has been…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)I want to double-check the valid points made by my hon. Friend. I will commit to writing to him on that specific point to make sure that we are covering in the way that he expects.30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)As my hon. Friend outlined, the new clause would introduce a requirement for the Government to assess the situation of homeowners with estate management companies explicitly named…30 Jan 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting)This is an interesting new clause that bears a few moments’ consideration, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for tabling it. Obviously, the first challenge is the matter of…30 Jan 2024