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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to ensure statutory leaseholder protections apply to those leaseholders currently extending or varying their leases; and if he will make a statement.

We are aware that leaseholders protected under the statutory leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 may no longer be protected if they have extended or varied their lease since 14 February 2022.

We are looking at how we can extend the remit of the leasehold protections to cover circumstances where there was a qualifying lease, as at 14 February 2022, and where a new lease with an extended term has since been entered into. This would need to be done via primary legislation and we are looking to legislate to resolve this issue as soon as Parliamentary time allows.