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Leaseholders' Rights Bill

My right hon. Friend is most courteous in giving way again. I do not wish to press the matter, but it needs to be emphasised that it is easy for a landlord to say, "Yes, we took the objection into account, but we dismissed it. We read it and took on board the fact that the leaseholders wanted a different contractor or a different method of doing something, but it was not the method that we favoured and we thought it better to press ahead." The fundamental question is whose home it is. It is the leaseholder's home, and the problem is that leaseholders who have paid for a property feel that they have rights over it, yet someone else can impose their will on them.