Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the single construction regulator as a potential regulator of property managers.
Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
As per the announcement of 29 September 2026, the government intends to legislate to regulate property agents through an independent statutory regulator. As a minimum this will cover managing agents across leasehold and commonhold, estate agents, letting agents and estate managers on freehold estates.
We will set out further detail on the governmentâs strategy for the regulation of property agents in due course, including on licensing, qualifications and codes of practice.
Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to respond to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee report, Pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill, published on 27 May 2026.
Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
My Department will issue a substantive response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee and introduce a substantive Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to publish a response to the second part of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Governmentâs consultation Strengthening leaseholder protections over charges and services.
Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
I refer the Noble Baroness to my Right Honourable Friend the Minister for Housing and Planningâs Written Ministerial Statement UIN HCWS270 of 15 July 2026 on the implementation of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. As set out there, the Government will provide a separate response in due course in relation to the further reforms consulted upon.
Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to Written Statement by the Minister of State for Housing and Planning on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244), what criteria they would use to define the necessary qualifications; which bodies could award these qualifications; and how it would ensure enforcement of such legislation.
Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
As per the announcement of 29 September 2026, the government intends to legislate to regulate property agents through an independent statutory regulator. As a minimum this will cover managing agents across leasehold and commonhold, estate agents, letting agents and estate managers on freehold estates.
We will set out further detail on the governmentâs strategy for the regulation of property agents in due course, including on licensing, qualifications and codes of practice.
Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to include an independent regulator of managing agents in the forthcoming Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill.
Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
As per the announcement of 29 September 2026, the government intends to legislate to regulate property agents through an independent statutory regulator. As a minimum this will cover managing agents across leasehold and commonhold, estate agents, letting agents and estate managers on freehold estates.
We will set out further detail on the governmentâs strategy for the regulation of property agents in due course, including on licensing, qualifications and codes of practice.
Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to regulate any part of the property management sector.
Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
As per the announcement of 29 September 2026, the government intends to legislate to regulate property agents through an independent statutory regulator. As a minimum this will cover managing agents across leasehold and commonhold, estate agents, letting agents and estate managers on freehold estates.
We will set out further detail on the governmentâs strategy for the regulation of property agents in due course, including on licensing, qualifications and codes of practice.
Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Merron on 6 July (HL Deb cols. 2â4), whether they consider the cited figure that 23 out of 25 reconfigured integrated care board groups having at least one fracture liaison service represents an increase in provision since July 2024; and what proportion of the population do they consider to be covered by such a service within their local area, given the size of the integrated care board groups.
Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Noble Baroness to the answer provided on 1 September in response to Question HL2030, which, for ease of reference, is reproduced below.
Our 10-Year Health Plan is clear that the future National Health Service must be more preventative, more integrated, and deliver more care closer to home, including for people with osteoporosis.
The Plan committed to rolling out Fracture Liaison Services across every part of the country by 2030, and we are clear that everyone at risk of fragility fractures should be able to benefit from high-quality, timely care that supports prevention, early intervention, and effective management. We are pursuing those goals across the whole pathway of fracture prevention, including improving access to diagnosis, supporting the adoption of effective treatments, and encouraging local systems to develop services that identify people at the highest risk of future fractures and intervene early.
Earlier this year, the Government announced ÂŁ2.6 million of funding for 20 new DEXA bone density scanners across England. Tens of thousands of patients will benefit from faster access to bone scans as a result, helping to ensure that people with bone conditions, such as osteoporosis, get diagnosed earlier. This builds on the first wave of 13 DEXA scanners announced last year. In 2025, over 21,000 extra DEXA scans were delivered in England compared with 2024.
We continue to work closely with NHS England to improve access to fracture prevention services and to explore the best ways of supporting local systems to deliver high-quality care which meets the needs of their populations. The Government has been clear that integrated care boards are best placed to shape services for their localities and we have set expectations, through the Renewed Womenâs Health Strategy, that they should prioritise community-based models when commissioning new services.
Progress in this area can be monitored through activity and outcomes reported through the Fracture Liaison Service Database.
Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of China and the Hong Kong authorities regarding the prison sentences imposed on three activists on 11 September for organising the commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Answered by Baroness Winterton of Doncaster - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
As I said in my statement of 21 August, these convictions were a further demonstration that even peaceful acts of remembrance in Hong Kong are now treated by the authorities as threats to national security. We continue to raise these concerns with the Hong Kong and Chinese authorities and to call for the Beijing-imposed National Security Law to be repealed.
Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce the measures recommended in the Ethics and Integrity Commission report Lobbying, Business Appointment Rules and Disclosure, published on 9 July.
Answered by Baroness Twycross - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Government recognises that more can be done on transparency around lobbying and is grateful to the Ethics and Integrity Commission for its thorough work. The Government will present its response to Parliament in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to undertake a comprehensive assessment of property law, including the Law of Property Act 1925, to enable it to meet the needs of today's property market and usage.
Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
The Government is already taking decisive action to reform and modernise property law to ensure that it works effectively for people across the country. We are reforming the home buying and selling system to make it faster, more certain, and less stressful for consumers. We are ending the outdated leasehold tenure and making commonhold the default tenure for new flats, capping ground rents at ÂŁ250 before changing to a peppercorn after 40 years and ending draconian enforcement remedies such as forfeiture. This leasehold reform programme is informed by the extensive work of the Law Commission. In addition, the Rentersâ Rights Act is delivering the biggest increase to rentersâ rights in a generation, transforming the experience of private renting by ending Section 21 âno faultâ evictions and giving renters greater security and stability in their homes.