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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords]

"I draw your attention, Madam Deputy Speaker, and the attention of the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

I am deeply embarrassed about the way that the retirement living industry has been treated over the past few years in the progress to this Bill. In …..."
Desmond Swayne - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords]

"rose—..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords]

"It is unlawful to charge ground rent for the maintenance of a communal area. They are clean different things...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords]

"What was the rationale for granting the exemption in the first place? Surely the Minister recognises that, for many people in the retirement sector, it will be in their financial interest to pay a lower purchase price and have a continual ground rent, rather than to pay a significantly greater …..."
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Written Question
Park Homes: Fees and Charges
Tuesday 14th December 2021

Asked by: Desmond Swayne (Conservative - New Forest West)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to link park home pitch fee increases to CPI.

Answered by Eddie Hughes

The Government remains committed to improving protections for park home residents and this includes changing the pitch fee review inflationary index from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). We will introduce the required legislation when the parliamentary timetable allows

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords]

"I lobbied for an exemption for the retirement living industry, which was granted and then withdrawn in January this year. Why was that?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords]

"That prompts the question of what proposals the Minister may have to enable leaseholders to enforce the purchase of freeholds from such companies. Does he have plans for that?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords]

"Does this not give rise to an extraordinary question about the legal advice provided by solicitors to those who made such purchases?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords]

"Will my right hon. Friend give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords]

"As I do!

It would be quite unlawful for the capital cost of the communal areas in a retirement living community to be paid for through an administration charge, so we come back to the question whether it is in the interests of the purchaser to pay a ground rent …..."
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