Parliament

APPG members list – current membership 162

Lords rebellion sees government Fire Safety Bill thrown into disarray

Minister hears how cladding ‘interim measures’ are ruining a generation of homebuyers

Commons Select Committee hears just how little the government understands of the Building Safety Crisis and leasehold law

Select Committee none the wiser over cladding forced loan schemes

Bankruptcies for leaseholders and billions entrusted to freeholders and their managers, APPG told

Labour puts the boot into forced loans to cladding leaseholders

MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Government should have equity stake in cladding freeholds covered by the fund, Hilary Benn MP tells APPG

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

‘Get out of your ivory tower’: Tory MP turns on Jenrick over ‘shocking betrayal’ of cladding leaseholders

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

MPs fail to stop Robert Jenrick’s multi-billion pound planning hand-out to offshore freeholders

Sector says ‘no, thanks’ to controversial Building Safety Bill

Public Accounts Committee issues damning verdict on MHCLG’s handling of the cladding crisis

Lords from all parties trash government’s multi-billion pound give-away to freehold owners

Surveyors discouraged by insurers from carrying out EWS1, says Sir Bob Neill MP

42 MPs back Starmer’s attempt to block rooftop planning give-away to freeholders

Lords warn government of “tidal wave of protest” at new right for freeholders to add extra floors without permission

Louie Burns’ ‘passion for justice’ praised in Commons by Justin Madders MP

After 60 consultations, Bottomley told ‘when parliamentary time allows’ for reforms promised three years ago

Fewer leaseholders’ rights would help make buildings safe, L&Q tells MPs

To build 8,120 new flats: Government gifts freeholders £41bn, devalues flats by £200m … and torpedoes leasehold reform

Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard Desmond £1bn planning scandal

Communities Select Committee: cladding blocks still doing nothing by December should have their freehold removed

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?

Jenrick tells Bottomley: Bill to set new ground rents at peppercorn coming ‘shortly’

Sir Bob Neill becomes cladding chair at APPG

Greenhalgh to Communities Select Committee: 1,700 non-ACM cladding blocks at high risk and some waking watch costs are ‘usurious’

Commons nods through Fire Safety Bill, amid plenty of grumbling by veteran MPs from all parties

Government may help over waking watch bills

Mike Amesbury: Young, highly mortgaged, often shared owners, with now uncertain employment … are facing homelessness and ruin over cladding

APPG gains more new members