Oral QuestionAttorney General

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential prosecution of cases of breaches of health and safety legislation in care homes that took place during the covid-19 outbreak.

Tabled: 20 May 2020Answered: 4 June 2020

Asked by

Rachael Maskell

Labour (Co-op)York Central

Answering Minister

the Attorney General

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)

The Government recognise the considerable financial strain that opaque and unfair fees and charges are placing on leaseholders across the country. As my hon. Friend will know, on 21 November last year, I made a written ministerial statement setting out the steps the Government intend to take to provide leaseholders with greater rights, powers and protections over their homes by implementing those reforms to the leasehold system already in statute. We will also progress the wider set of reforms necessary to end the feudal leasehold system for good.