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Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) It can taint the dream of home ownership, with a raft of excessive conditions, fees and charges. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) their management fees. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Andrews (Lab - Life peer) Permission was sought and granted, first for one storey under normal planning rules and then for two. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) Some face exorbitant management charges or have to seek permission and pay a charge simply to change - Speech Link
5: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) They have been able to set the service charges and insurance fees at whatever levels they choose. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) HMP Millsike will open next year; we have planning permission for Gartree and Grendon Springhill, and - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Barnaby’s mother, Emma Webber, says it is “abhorrent” that murder charges were not pursued against her - Speech Link
3: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) As I have said, we are already increasing the fees for those who take on legal aid work in connection - Speech Link
4: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) Why is there such a gap between the cheapest crematorium in the country, which charges £408, and the - Speech Link
5: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) The fees for civil legal aid are half what they were in 1996 and the number of providers has fallen by - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Planning Reform - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (Con - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) permission being granted. - Speech Link
2: Simon Clarke (Con - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) There is too little protection against drastically increased service charges and few incentives for freeholders - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) achieving nothing.Generally speaking, at any given time there are a million homes with planning permission - Speech Link
4: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) I have also been running a campaign to get the Government to scrap the cap on planning fees, as my constituents - Speech Link
5: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) The Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 will speed up the planning process, delivering a faster and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Leasehold Reform and New Homes - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) the fact that permission is often given before there is clarity on adoption. - Speech Link
2: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby and Ainsty) plight.The present system of maintenance charges and management fees is outrageous. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) The distinct set of problems faced by residential freeholders on those estates with charges and fees - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) They do not bother with proper service charge information or a proper list of charges for permission - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) They could see that this shared ownership model was defective, and they refused planning permission on - Speech Link
3: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) A lot of the charges that people are hit with involve opaque management fees for nothing. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) —on charges under section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986 and section 68 of the Criminal Justice and - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) playing by the rules, lodging applications and paying the appropriate fees. - Speech Link
3: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a brief statement. - Speech Link
4: Duncan Baker (Con - North Norfolk) For people like my constituents who are planning to get married and are making wedding plans, will the - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) It was totally unacceptable, and, incidentally, it was also a breach of planning law. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) and the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration of further charges. - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) Two have been built, one is being built at the moment and two have planning permission. - Speech Link
3: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) The two fees are completely different, in terms of quantum. - Speech Link
4: Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green) We are increasing fees for legal aid practitioners. - Speech Link
5: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) prison officers for the mega-prison that it now has planning permission for in my constituency? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage: 9th sitting - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) and arbitrary administration fees; charges hiked without adequate justification; and charges levied - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) maintain communal facilities to the standards and quality set out in the planning permission.” - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) and what measures apply only to variable service charges. - Speech Link
2: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) We seek very clear requirements in the secondary legislation for how permitted insurance fees will be - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) These clauses will require the disclosure of fees charged for any work, as I have just indicated. - Speech Link
4: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) instead requires landlords to apply to the relevant court or tribunal for permission to recover their - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) less costly for them to contest permission fees and service charges they think are unreasonable or excessive - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) how charges are requested and demanded. - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) would be greater than if you were subject to charges and ground rent. - Speech Link
4: None in leasehold enfranchisement and service charges and so forth for probably 20 or 25 years. - Speech Link