Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 67341

Ground Rent

Tabled: 14 July 2025
Answered: 22 July 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the devolved Administrations on measures to help support leaseholders who experience increases in ground rents.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
The legislation governing leasehold ownership currently applies only in England and Wales. The policy area is devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and it would be for the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Assembly to determine whether, an...
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