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

ConservativeReigate

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 Pennycook
The 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.