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Examination of Witnesses | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees I will come to that in a minute. But just in here, on this Bill, is there anything that we should look out for?
Examination of Witnesses | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees Rules, codes, systems, data, penalties, redress, different organisations—this is your answer as a better solution to caveat emptor?
Examination of Witnesses | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees In all circumstances or specifically on this Bill? Well, we ought to stick to the Bill.
Examination of Witnesses | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees Okay, so more generally then, on regulators—Ofgem on energy prices and Ofwat on sewage and water—that approach seems not to provide the outc
Examination of Witness | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees Q It is, and it seems very expensive legislation. Do you agree with that?
Examination of Witness | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees Q That is helpful. What is your instinct? Most of this is about removing marriage value payments.
Examination of Witness | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees Q So it is redistributive, primarily.
Examination of Witness | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees Q What is clear, though, is that the business net present value is scored at minus £1.7 billion, so presumably we can pretty much say that
Examination of Witness | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees Q The top line says that the best estimate of present value is £90 million, but then it says that the low estimate is minus £1.5 billion an
Examination of Witness | Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | Public Bill Committees Q Not on my copy; I presume it must have, but this figure is listed at the front.
