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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to require at least one member of the Board of the Leasehold Advisory Service to be an independent representative of leaseholders.

The main purpose of the Leasehold Advisory Service is to support leaseholders by providing impartial free initial advice. It is desirable for Board members of the Leasehold Advisory Service to have knowledge or experience of the housing sector, particularly issues that affect the residential leasehold sector. However, there is no current or planned requirement for at least one member of the Board of the Leasehold Advisory Service to be an independent representative of leaseholders.