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Mark Menzies

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Channel 4
Monday 9th January 2023

(1 year, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Felicity Buchan Portrait Felicity Buchan
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We have established procedures in place. We are there to discuss.

Mark Menzies Portrait Mark Menzies (Fylde) (Con)
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4. Whether his Department is taking steps to reform the leasehold system.

Richard Fuller Portrait Richard Fuller (North East Bedfordshire) (Con)
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6. If he will bring forward legislative proposals to give freeholders rights to directly challenge management and service charges equivalent to those of leaseholders.

Mark Menzies Portrait Mark Menzies
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I welcome the steps taken by my right hon. and learned Friend and look forward to seeing them progress into law. Nationally, much of the focus has been on high-rise flats, but in Fylde there are many new housing developments completed in recent years with leasehold issues of their own. In light of that, what action is she taking to ensure that these reforms include those living on recently completed housing developments?

Lucy Frazer Portrait Lucy Frazer
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I can give my hon. Friend assurance that the many measures we will bring in will affect not only new purchasers but existing leaseholders. We will be bringing forward legislation later in this Parliament.

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