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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to end the distinction between qualifying and unqualifying leaseholders under the Building Safety Act 2022.

Developers and freeholders have a responsibility to remediate buildings to eliminate life-critical safety defects and the Government continues to work to ensure they do so. Where developers remediate buildings pursuant to a developer remediation contract entered into with the Department, they will do so on a whole building basis and the distinction between qualifying and non-qualifying leaseholders will not apply.

Where 11m+ buildings do not fit into this category, Parliament considered this policy issue in 2022 and, through the Building Safety Act, determined that a threshold of owning three properties should apply for qualifying lease status. We continue to monitor the overall framework for building remediation and implement our approach based on the decision of Parliament last year.