I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. I apologise for missing the start of his speech, but I have been watching it from outside the Chamber. Notwithstanding the Minister’s defence of the position, he accepted yesterday during proceedings on the urgent question that there are 42 blocks whose freeholder is saying that leaseholders have to pay for remedial works, as my hon. Friend said. The dangers may be temporarily resolved—there are big question marks about that—but the financial distress that has been caused to leaseholders by the prospect of hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of pounds of debt has not been resolved.
Fire Safety and Cladding
Proceeding contribution from
Jim Fitzpatrick
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 23 January 2019.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Fire Safety and Cladding.
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