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Service Charges: Codes of Practice

Commons · Question 76818 · Tabled 12 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 22 Sep 2025

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Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to make adherence to the Service Charge Residential Management Code mandatory for residential leasehold property managers.

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 22 Sep 2025

The current edition of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Service Charge Residential Management Code, approved in 2016 using powers under Section 87 of the Leasehold Reform and Urban Development Act 1993, may be used as evidence by the First-tier ...