Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many responses the Law Commission received from existing leaseholders to the consultation entitled, Leasehold home ownership: buying your freehold or extending your lease, published in September 2018.

The Commission received over 1,100 responses to the consultation on enfranchisement reform.

These responses are from a wide range of interested stakeholders including lawyers, surveyors, leaseholders, landlords, and representative groups.

The Commission has not yet categorised the 1,100 consultation responses to enable them to identify how many responses are from leaseholders. The Commission’s initial estimate is that around three-quarters of responses are from leaseholders.

It is Law Commission policy to publish a full analysis of consultation responses for all its projects, so this information will be published in due course.