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HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI beg leave to withdraw the amendment.29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI beg to move. Excuse me—I am dyslexic, and procedure is massively hard for me. One day I will get it all right—and all at the same time.29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillA lot of the Bill relies on secondary legislation coming through at a later date, meaning that we must all wait for many of the details of individual policies and cannot fully…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI beg leave to withdraw the amendment.29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillAt Second Reading, I said that leaseholders should not be expected to become serial litigators in the same manner that the sub-postmasters had to in order to get some justice for…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, my main focus so far has been boosting leaseholder control over service charges by removing barriers to the right to manage. However, we must dramatically reform the law…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillIt would be extraordinary, though possible, if fellow leaseholders could invoke forfeiture but the freeholder could not. That would be incredible, and I am sure it would have all…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, it was not that I do not like transparency. I agree with my noble friend that transparency is very useful so you know whether you are being ripped off. I was making an…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I want to pay tribute to Campden Charities, as I am a beneficiary of the activities of Campden Charities. I came from a community where the likelihood of one of us…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI have heard what my noble friend the Minister has had to say and I am minded to do as she asks—if I could get one of those meetings that she has to offer. I am sure then that we…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI support this amendment. Although in his intervention the noble Lord talked about how to control peoples’ behaviour when they have misbehaved and breached their lease, it should…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I will speak to my Amendments 65A and 65B. The Government should be applauded for their ambitions as laid out in the Bill. Let us hope that we can achieve them all. I…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillThe number of cases will not indicate the use of forfeiture, because forfeiture is wielded as a fiery dragon. Leaseholders speak about it as the dog that bites. The number of…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillThere are ways and means within our court system to reclaim any money that may be owed to the freeholder for service charges, ground rent and so on. Let us be very clear that…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMaybe my noble friend the Minister can give us some detail on the Government’s new-found support for commonhold. It would be easier not to move my amendment if I had some idea of…22 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillCan my noble friend the Minister let me know how many of the 121 recommendations that the Law Commission made around commonhold will be adopted?22 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Stevenage. I do not want to rehearse the reasons why I think that a mandatory share of the freehold is…22 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Twycross, with whom I have worked for many years in City Hall. This is my first time contributing to a debate,…27 Mar 2024