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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to review regulations on the purchase of (a) leasehold properties and (b) the sale of freeholds to third parties by property developers.

The Government identified that tackling onerous ground rents and leasehold houses were priorities in the Housing White Paper.

We are also working closely with the Law Commission on leasehold reform, building on their 13^th programme of law reform consultation which had a significant response – over 1,000 submissions – on residential leasehold.

We are reviewing issues relating to leasehold and will provide further information shortly.