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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help prevent unreasonable service charges on freehold estates.

This Government is implementing significant reforms to support homeowners through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.

As part of this, we will introduce measures to enable homeowners to hold estate management companies to account for what they spend.

This includes giving homeowners more information on what they are paying for, and the ability to challenge the reasonableness of their costs.

As Continued at Report Stage, the Government understands the strength of feeling on this issue, and we are considering it further.