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Leasehold: Repairs and Maintenance

Asked by Lewis CockingConservativeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 2 July 2025UIN 61849

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 57573 on Housing: Sales, when her Department plans to launch the consultation on new reforms to the section 20 ‘major works’ procedure.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement of 21 November 2024 (HCWS2440), the government are committed to consulting on new reforms to the section 20 ‘major works’ procedure that leaseholders must go through when they face large bills for such works. We will set out more detail shortly.

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