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Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is the best and most efficient way to make leases more transparent - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) simplify, the process of leasehold extension (for example, as in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill - Speech Link
3: None Secretary of State must make regulations to amend the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 to lower - Speech Link
4: None It needs, as the Law Commission states, a cultural change in the way that commonhold and leasehold reform - Speech Link
5: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) We all want to see leasehold reform and commonhold reform. Everybody backs it. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) reform and see it as a long-term replacement for leasehold. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) Since 1966, all parties have promised leasehold and commonhold reform in election manifestos. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bray of Coln (Con - Life peer) The Government’s Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is certainly attracting support and high expectations - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) I want to reassure your Lordships that the Government remain committed to commonhold reform and that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold Reform - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) for flats in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill contains a substantial package of measures to increase - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) We remain committed to continuing our leasehold and commonhold reforms, and the Bill is a major step - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) the commonhold system so that developers and home owners have an alternative to leasehold ownership. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Mike Amesbury (Lab - Weaver Vale) How many more times are we going to try to reform the leasehold system? - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) onwards and got rid of it.Cath Williams: Yes.Jo Derbyshire: The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, for leaseholders to be able to withhold their service charges if all - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) Reform Act 1967 and the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, to provide an entirely - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) It was introduced in the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 and has not taken off. - Speech Link
3: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) we were passing the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) Leasehold does not do that; commonhold does. - Speech Link
5: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) That is much truer of commonhold than of leasehold, which is why I support commonhold rather than leasehold - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) My wife is the joint chief executive of the Law Commission, whose work on leasehold reform we have regularly - Speech Link
2: Mike Amesbury (Lab - Weaver Vale) I am a member of the all-party parliamentary group on leasehold and commonhold reform. - Speech Link
3: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) We saw that in the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, where we had the commonhold and it did not - Speech Link
4: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) We have been advocating for the reform of leasehold since 1984. - Speech Link
5: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) Our position is that leasehold does require reform. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill (Tenth sitting) - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) 1 of Part 2 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (see sections 76 and 77 of that Act);“onward - Speech Link
2: None 77 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002.” - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) 77 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002.” - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) For example, the Housing Act 1996 and the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 introduced prohibitions - Speech Link
5: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) and Housing Act 1989, the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, the Commonhold and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Residential Leasehold for Flats - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) Reforms in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill will help leaseholders to buy their freeholds and will - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Of course, we welcome the reform of leasehold, but with 5 million leasehold properties in England, 70% - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) Leasehold reform is complex. We have consulted widely and are taking time to get things right. - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) He wanted to replace leasehold with commonhold, but the Bill does not even mention commonhold. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) leasehold for flats, but there is reform of commonhold that needs to take place so that it will be fit - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Amenities (Adoption by Local Authorities)
1st reading - Tue 30 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022, which applied only to new lease agreements, was a step in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage part two - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None 77 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002.”Member’s explanatory statement This new Clause would - Speech Link
2: None (1), (2) and (3) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967”.Leasehold Reform Act 1979 2 In section 1 of the Leasehold - Speech Link
3: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) When the right to manage was introduced through the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, certain - Speech Link
4: None and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. - Speech Link