Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of trends in the level of charges requested by Freeholders to Leaseholders for the completion of a deed of variation.

My Department does not hold data on trends in the level of charges for the completion of a deed of variation.

Leaseholders who are dissatisfied with costs incurred as part of a deed of variation can challenge the reasonableness of those costs through the First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber).