§ Mr. Whitakerasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will make a statement on the functioning to date of the Leasehold Reform Act; what information he has of the approximate number of tenants who have 85W availed themselves of it; and whether he has any plans to extend or improve it.
Mr. McCollI have reason to suppose that many leaseholders are availing themselves of the rights available under this Act, or benefiting from the more favourable climate it has created for the purchase of freeholds by leaseholders. Their number cannot, however, be estimated as even where the machinery laid down by the Act is employed enfranchisement is carried out by private transactions, which need not be publicly recorded.
My right hon. Friend has no plans for the revision of the legislation, which has been in force for less than six months.