Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 99005
Leasehold: Ground Rent
Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026
Question
Rebecca Paul
Conservative — Reigate
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what evaluation his Department has made of the need to ensure that planned reforms to the leasehold system address the matter of leaseholders struggling to sell share-of-freehold
Answer
Matthew PennycookThe government is committed to addressing unregulated and unaffordable ground rents and we will do this in legislation. We will set out further details on our detailed plans for existing ground rents in due course.