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You are here: Home / News / Blessed is the sinner that repenteth … former housing minister Heather Wheeler joins APPG to reform leasehold

Blessed is the sinner that repenteth … former housing minister Heather Wheeler joins APPG to reform leasehold

March 16, 2020 //  by Harry Scoffin

Heather Wheeler giving evidence to the Communities Select Committee leasehold inquiry in February 2019

By Harry Scoffin

In a welcome change of heart, former housing minister Heather Wheeler last week joined the All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform.

The MP is the latest in a string of Conservative politicians to add their name to the parliamentary group committed to protecting consumers with landlord-controlled leaseholds, and which campaigns for commonhold, a form of freehold ownership, to become the accepted tenure for new-build flats in England and Wales.

The MP for South Derbyshire follows new Conservative signings Dr Matthew Offord MP, a former flat lessee who has railed in the Commons against “morally corrupt” freeholders and managing agents, and Neil O’Brien MP, the Huddersfield-born Tory rising star pushing for an end to “fleecehold” estate management wheezes.  

Ms Wheeler was the minister for housing and homelessness between January 2018 and July 2019.

She served under both Sajid Javid and James Brokenshire, and was promoted by Boris Johnson to be the minister for Asia and the Pacific in his first administration.

Leaseholders were critical of Ms Wheeler when she was interviewed about the ground rent / mis-selling scandal by the Communities Select Committee in February 2019.

Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee

Ms Wheeler’s decision to join the APPG comes after she tweeted strong support for the Competition and Markets Authority intervention over leasehold mis-selling:

Delighted on behalf of my Constituents who have been so badly affected by this issue. We sent in a huge amount of evidence to the CMA and I have offered to work with MHCLG on next steps for real change for our Leaseholders https://t.co/1cGOyiedeM

— Heather Wheeler MP (@HeatherWheeler) February 28, 2020

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Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee New Housing Minister hits the ground running Labour deputy Tom Watson joins APPG on leasehold reform – but select committee STILL won’t call in the housebuilders We are dissatisfied with the running of LEASE, APPG chairs tells housing minister Every other major economy has moved away from residential leasehold so why not us, asks shadow housing minister Sarah Jones

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