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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he will bring forward consultation on leasehold reform.

The Housing White Paper highlights the Government’s aim to improve consumer choice and fairness in the leasehold sector and to tackle unfair and unreasonable abuses of leasehold. It identifies new leasehold houses and onerous ground rents as areas where the most urgent reform may be needed. It also states we will bring forward a consultation on leasehold reform and this remains our intention, as well as considering wider reforms to leasehold in the medium-term.