Thursday 18 July 2019 Housing / Sarah Jones Sarah Jones responds to government’s announcement that HPL cladding is a fire risk and must be removed Continue Reading
Thursday 18 July 2019 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to select committee report on cladding Continue Reading
Wednesday 17 July 2019 Housing / John Healey The country needs a new plan to fix the housing crisis – John Healey Continue Reading
Tuesday 2 July 2019 Housing / Sarah Jones On 10th anniversary of Lakanal House fire, Labour investigation reveals 95% of high-rise social housing blocks are still without sprinklers Continue Reading
Tuesday 2 July 2019 Alex Cunningham / Housing Alex Cunningham responds to Mark Field describing homeless people as ‘undesirables’ Continue Reading
Tuesday 25 June 2019 Housing / John Healey This is a lame duck announcement from a lame duck PM – John Healey Continue Reading
Tuesday 25 June 2019 Housing / John Healey John Healey comments on NHF figures showing a fall in social housing numbers Continue Reading
Monday 24 June 2019 Housing / John Healey Cuts hit areas with the highest levels of homeless deaths hardest Continue Reading
Tuesday 18 June 2019 Housing / John Healey Social housing building collapses – John Healey responds Continue Reading
Tuesday 11 June 2019 Housing / John Healey Labour urges end of year deadline for removal of Grenfell-style cladding and confiscation of private blocks if work isn’t done Continue Reading
Friday 24 May 2019 Housing The shameful rise in homeless children stuck in temporary accommodation will be the legacy of this failed Conservative Government – Alex Cunningham Continue Reading
Thursday 9 May 2019 Housing / John Healey Astonishing it has taken two years for Ministers to act on Grenfell-style cladding – Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 2 May 2019 Housing / John Healey Conservative Government can’t even get homes built on the land that it owns – John Healey Continue Reading
Monday 15 April 2019 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to the government’s pledge to protect tenants against unfair eviction Continue Reading
Wednesday 10 April 2019 Andrew Gwynne / Housing The Tories should never have appointed Roger Scruton and must explain what due diligence was done – Gwynne Continue Reading
Monday 8 April 2019 Housing Labour announces Alex Cunningham MP as Shadow Housing Minister Continue Reading
Friday 8 March 2019 Housing / John Healey Labour commits to indefinite tenancies for private renters Continue Reading
Thursday 7 March 2019 Housing / Sarah Jones Sarah Jones responds to data on re-cladding high rise buildings Continue Reading
Friday 15 February 2019 Housing / John Healey LGA research shows the huge cost of Conservative Ministers’ disastrous decision to slash funding for new social housing – Healey Continue Reading
Friday 8 February 2019 Housing / John Healey Deep cuts are stopping us building the homes the country needs – John Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 31 January 2019 Housing / John Healey Rough sleeping figures are desperately disappointing – Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 20 December 2018 Housing / John Healey Labour-led ‘homes fit for human habitation’ legislation comes into force Continue Reading
Thursday 13 December 2018 Housing / John Healey Under the Tories even more children will be homeless this Christmas – John Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 29 November 2018 Housing / John Healey It is shameful that in the last six months the Government has funded only 307 new homes for social rent – Healey Continue Reading
Friday 23 November 2018 Housing Labour investigation reveals only 4% of London council blocks have sprinklers as Government ignores funding requests following Grenfell Continue Reading
Monday 8 October 2018 Housing / John Healey This report adds to the mounting evidence of a housing crisis that Tory Ministers are failing to fix – Healey Continue Reading
Monday 1 October 2018 Housing / John Healey John Healey MP responds to James Brokenshire’s speech Continue Reading
Sunday 30 September 2018 Housing / John McDonnell May’s playing catch-up with her poorly-targeted rehash of Labour policy Continue Reading
Monday 24 September 2018 Housing / John Healey John Healey speaking at Labour Party Conference today Continue Reading
Monday 10 September 2018 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to ONS housebuilding stats Continue Reading
Sunday 2 September 2018 Housing / John Healey / Press Releases Help to Buy should be overhauled and tightly targeted on first-time buyers with ordinary incomes – Healey Continue Reading
Tuesday 14 August 2018 Housing / John Healey It is astonishing that today’s Green Paper doesn’t include any Government investment for new homes – John Healey Continue Reading
Tuesday 14 August 2018 Housing / John Healey Brokenshire’s green paper shows Government has run out of ideas – Healey Continue Reading
Monday 13 August 2018 Housing / John Healey New analysis shows renters pay over £10 billion a year more in rent since 2010 Continue Reading
Monday 13 August 2018 Housing / John Healey Government admits rough sleeping announcement includes no additional money Continue Reading
Wednesday 25 July 2018 Housing / John Healey ONS first-time buyer figures demonstrate need for Labour’s million low-cost homes Continue Reading
Thursday 28 June 2018 Housing / John Healey These dreadfully disappointing figures show that the number of new homes being built has fallen on Theresa May’s watch – Healey Continue Reading
Wednesday 27 June 2018 Housing / John Healey ‘Rise in children without a home should shame the government’ – Healey Continue Reading
Tuesday 19 June 2018 Housing / John Healey The number of Government-funded social rented homes being built has fallen by almost 90% since 2010 – Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 17 May 2018 Housing / John Healey It beggars belief that Hackitt Review gives green light to combustible materials on high-rise blocks – Healey Continue Reading
Wednesday 16 May 2018 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to Grenfell cladding announcement Continue Reading
Thursday 19 April 2018 Housing / Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn speech at launch of Housing for the Many review Continue Reading
Monday 16 April 2018 Housing / John Healey Report on Grenfell exposes breakdown in our system of fire-safety checks and controls – John Healey Continue Reading
Sunday 15 April 2018 Council Housing / Housing / John Healey Labour councils build 1300 homes each more than Conservative councils Continue Reading
Friday 13 April 2018 Housing / John Healey Dominic Raab should stop trying to blame others for unaffordable housing costs – Healey Continue Reading
Friday 6 April 2018 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to Government’s new national database of rogue landlords Continue Reading
Thursday 29 March 2018 Housing / John Healey Government admits broken promises to replace homes sold under right to buy – John Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 29 March 2018 Housing / Margaret Greenwood Labour welcomes major housing benefits U-turn and Government enacting another policy from our manifesto – Greenwood Continue Reading
Wednesday 28 March 2018 Housing / John Healey At current rate of progress it will take 15 years for housing blocks with dangerous cladding to be replaced – Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 22 March 2018 Housing Melanie Onn comments on the rise in the number of households in temporary accommodation Continue Reading