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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to amend the qualifying threshold for leaseholders to activate a change of management under the Right to Manage scheme to enable those who fail to reply to be deemed to have agreed to a change of management in order to meet the threshold.

The Government currently has no plans to consider amending the criteria for exercising the right to manage, to enable non-responders to have been deemed to have agreed to a change of management.

Exercising the right to manage should not be taken lightly. There are significant responsibilities; it commits members to costs and creates liabilities.

In the circumstances we believe that it is essential that everyone understands the responsibilities and commitments they are making and it is therefore important they are actively engaged in the process.