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Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 18 Apr 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None It is calling for a mass shift to commonhold, a system widely used in Scotland, Canada and Australia. - Speech Link
2: None At the very least, any new-build homes that offer leasehold, rather than shared freehold or commonhold - Speech Link
3: Lord Stunell (LDEM - Life peer) ask where the leasehold reform Bill is, of which the Government have spoken so much and delivered so - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We shall also be debating Amendment 504GJG in the name of my noble friend Lord Moylan on leasehold reform - Speech Link
5: Lord Best (CB - Life peer) We may see some progress in either the renters’ reform Bill or the leasehold reform Bill; I certainly - Speech Link


Petitions
London & Quadrant Housing Trust - Mon 17 Apr 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None Leasehold and commonhold reform supports our mission to level up homeownership by addressing power imbalance - Speech Link
2: None outline best practice for managing agents, landlords or other relevant parties in relation to residential leasehold - Speech Link
3: None Many landlords and managing agents already demonstrate good practice and provide significant and relevant - Speech Link
4: None We will take action to support and empower leasehold homeowners. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold Reform - Thu 23 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) That is why we have committed to end the sale of new leasehold houses and to reinvigorate commonhold - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) , and we are taking forward a comprehensive programme of reform to end unfair practices in the home ownership - Speech Link
3: Lord Stoneham of Droxford (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, in 2020 the Law Commission recommended commonhold ownership as an option. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Building Safety Update - Tue 14 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) managing agents—all comes round again to the issue of leasehold reform. - Speech Link
2: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) the leasehold reform Bill. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) the leasehold reform Bill. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Leaseholders and Managing Agents - Tue 28 Feb 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) and commonhold reform, for his knowledge, his campaigning over many years and his intervention.In the - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) who did so much, with Neil Mulcock, to usher in the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. - Speech Link
3: Stephen McPartland (CON - Stevenage) We are talking about leasehold reform. - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) and commonhold reports of 2020? - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Higher-Risk Buildings (Key Building Information etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 - Wed 22 Feb 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) But in doing that, the Government are passing to the residents—the commonhold association itself—the - Speech Link
2: Dehenna Davison (CON - Bishop Auckland) unit or commonhold unit, if the accountable person has no control over that unit—for example, if it - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) Here we have huge responsibilities being placed on individuals or commonhold associations without the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 22 Feb 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 to limit the right of landlords to recover legal costs in - Speech Link
2: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) There is the Leasehold Reform (Reasonableness of Service Charges) Bill, the Leasehold Reform (Disclosure - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) and commonhold reform will support the mission to level up home ownership and promote true home ownership - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold Charges - Mon 20 Feb 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) In the other place, he talks of the reform of leasehold as a tenure of housing, yet in the media he talks - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) My Lords, last month I asked my noble friend if she would publish the promised leasehold reform Bill - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) But I do welcome the engagement we are already regularly having on leasehold and commonhold reform. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) the leasehold issue, but it is complex and needs careful consideration. - Speech Link
5: Lord Best (CB - Life peer) Is this vulnerable group not particularly important in leasehold reform? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building Safety - Mon 30 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (LAB - Wigan) If he legislates to ban leaseholds on new builds and to phase out existing leasehold in favour of commonhold - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) In 2002, 20 years ago, Parliament and the Labour Government passed leasehold and commonhold reform, but - Speech Link
3: Julian Lewis (CON - New Forest East) If he does reform the freehold and leasehold systems, what provision will he make so that people with - Speech Link
4: Mike Amesbury (LAB - Weaver Vale) final stage of leasehold reform, to put it in the history books? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Residential Leaseholders - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) It is a complex long-term reform programme, and it is important that we get the detail right. - Speech Link
2: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, I am aware and am grateful that the noble Baroness is committed to leasehold reform. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) an alternative to leasehold ownership for flats; and giving leaseholders more information about what - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) We have always said that we will bring forward a reform Bill in this Parliament and that is what we intend - Speech Link
5: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) to move more towards a system of commonhold rather than leasehold. - Speech Link