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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of recommendations on the cost of leasehold enfranchisement contained in the Law Commission's report, entitled Leasehold home ownership: buying your freehold or extending your lease: Report on options to reduce the price payable, published on 9 January 2020.

The Government is carefully considering the proposals outlined in the Law Commission’s report Leasehold home ownership: buying your freehold or extending your lease, Report on options to reduce the price payable and will set out its preferred way forward in due course.