Clive Betts MP

Clive Betts: removing onerous ground rents is ‘completely compatible with the European convention on human rights’

Shared ownership: Immensely complex; nothing shared when it comes to costs; clever ‘investors’ scent a revenue source to replace ground rents

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

Leaseholders helped over building safety crisis is now a ‘bizarre lucky dip’, say MPs

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’

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

Housing crisis. Possible banking crisis. And lease forfeitures ‘very, very soon’, Communities Select Committee is warned

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

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

Land Registry publishes new data on leasehold and fleecehold deals to help buyers and nudge Rightmove

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

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

March 23: Cladding showdown begins, with Communities Select Committee questioning Tchenguiz group … and LKP

Government told to curb excessive ground rents and ‘disassociate’ from freeholders’ ‘Pledge to Leaseholders’ by Communities Select Committee

CMA’s devastating report on leasehold mis-selling echoes the Communities Select Committee, says Clive Betts MP

‘Absolutely repugnant’ to make leaseholders pick up tab for deadly cladding, says Bob Blackman MP

Reviewer of building regulations admits post-Grenfell safety regime open to abuse by rogue freeholders

Don’t trust developers to put right the wrongs that they created, Clive Betts tells government

Peterborough by-election Brexit Party candidate was director of E&J Ground Rents

Communities Select Committee reject the lobbying nonsense of the freeholders’ good behaviour ‘pledge’

Competition and Markets Authority cannot investigate leasehold mis-selling because of Brexit, Brokenshire told

Communities Select Committee MPs issue devastating report into the toxic leasehold system

Help To Buy cheat Persimmon racks up £1bn profits – and spread the plague of leasehold houses around the country

Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee

Furious attack on government Grenfell cladding inaction in Commons

Can the Leasehold Advisory Service monopoly survive devastating questioning by Select Committee?

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

Leaseholders urge Clive Betts MP to quiz housebuilders over ground rent review schemes

Housebuilders ground rent scandal compo schemes ‘must go further and faster’, says housing minister