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HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillBroadly on the whole question of insurance, I am due to meet the chair, Baroness Morgan of Cotes, and the chief executive of the Association of British Insurers later this week to…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI believe that most of the people in the House are on the right side of justice, especially the hon. Lady.11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy hon. Friend is completely right. I will be looking at the responses to the consultation, and I am sure that some of London’s finest legal firms and most eloquent solicitors…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI quite agree with my right hon. Friend. There are good landlords, and the Duchy of Cornwall has been a stand-out example, as have been the Cadogan estate, the Howard de Walden…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: a number of the people who have built, operated and retain the freehold on these estates levy service charges for all sorts of things that,…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI am very grateful to my hon. Friend. She and my hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfordshire (Richard Fuller) have been particularly energetic in pressing me to deal with…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI believe it will. I must now make progress because I know a number of people want to contribute, so I will try to run through the other arguments about why we are taking the…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman and his Committee for all their work—it was discourteous of me, when running through the names of those to whom I am grateful, not to…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI believe that it should be, and I encourage the hon. Lady’s constituents—as I am sure she has done—to be in touch with Martin Boyd’s Leasehold Advisory Service to be absolutely…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillThat is certainly true and I quite agree.11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI couldn’t agree more.11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillAn embarrassment of riches! I will give way to all colleagues currently standing, and then I will try to make progress.11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy right hon. Friend makes an important point on permitted development rights. On the whole, I am in favour of the extension of permitted development rights, because I want to see…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI take the right hon. Gentleman’s point, but he is conflating two things. Help to Buy can be criticised or defended on its own terms, and I believe it was the right intervention…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI just want to make one or two additional points and then I am happy to give way. Personally, one of the moments where I realised that the system, which is hard to defend in any…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillIt is the case that this Bill covers England and Wales. Obviously the hon. Gentleman is aware that there are slightly different tribunals that operate in each jurisdiction, but it…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The miners’ families and their descendants, whom he represents so well, were originally in homes that the NCB established to ensure that those…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI actually agree that commonhold is the ideal form of tenure, but there are certain technical questions about when commonhold can apply, not least if a building also has…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Before proceeding to the heart of the Bill, may I offer a few words of thanks to those who have laboured long in this…11 Dec 2023HANSARD Leasehold and Freehold Reform BillThe right hon. Lady has made it clear from the Dispatch Box that she opposes excessive ground rents. Can she explain why the Labour leader made it clear at the Labour party…11 Dec 2023