Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 June 1991.
Tim Yeo
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Environment)
12:00,
12 June 1991
As I said, the ultimate sanction lies in the right of leaseholders to purchase the freeholds of their houses if they fall within the right limits. Nothing in law prevents the freeholder from selling the freehold to another purchaser if he so wishes. That right is exercised by a large number of people under satisfactory circumstances and we have no plans to change the law.