Leasehold

(asked on 9th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Ministers have had responsibility for helping residential leaseholders since 2010.


Answered by
Heather Wheeler Portrait
Heather Wheeler
This question was answered on 18th July 2018

I have been the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Homelessness since 9 January 2018 and am responsible for policy on residential leasehold. My Hon Friend Kit Malthouse MP has been the Minister of State for Housing since 9 July 2018 and holds responsibility for all building safety issues, including for ensuring that the cost of the replacement of unsafe cladding is not unfairly passed onto leaseholders.

The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for leaseholders and freeholders and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service.

We will ban the unjustified use of leaseholds on new houses and we will bring forward legislation to do this at the earliest opportunity. Any new government funding scheme will contain the condition that the money cannot support the unjustified use of leasehold for new houses. We want to build more homes but not at any cost. This is an essential step to restore pride and dignity to homeowners everywhere.

Previous Ministers with responsibility for helping residential leaseholders since 2010 are as follows:

Rt Hon John Healey MP

Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

Mark Prisk MP

Kris Hopkins

Rt Hon Brandon Lewis MP

Rt Hon Gavin Barwell

Alok Sharma MP

In addition, the Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP previously had responsibility for ensuring that the cost of the replacement of unsafe cladding was not unfairly passed onto leaseholders.

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