To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the practice by freeholders of excluding the curtilage, including associated parking and garaging, from enfranchised properties on the operation of the Leasehold Reform Act 2002. (107373)

The Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 as amended by the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 provides for enfranchising leaseholders to acquire rights in respect of appurtenant property. This includes any garage, outhouse, garden or yards whether or not let under a separate lease together with other property which the leaseholders may be entitled to use jointly.

No concerns about the workability of these provisions have been raised with my Department and therefore no assessment has been made.