Leasehold and commonhold APPG now has 167 members

Current number of members 167 + 11 friends

Listed below are the members of the All Party Parliamentary Group looking into Leasehold and Commonhold reform in the new parliament. The list is updated as new members join and will be updated on this page throughout the parliament.

Any member of parliament in the Commons or Lords may join an APPG unless they hold a formal office in the government. The group has also created the informal category of “friend” of the APPG to allow members of the government to follow the group as part of their work in constituency matters.  Current APPG “friends” are:

Robert Buckland MP for South Swindon – Solicitor General
Mark Field MP for Cities of London and Westminster – Minister of State (FCO) 
Nick Gibb MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton  – Minister of State for Education
Andrew Stephenson MP for Pendle – Assistant Government Whip
Mike Freer MP for Finchley and Golders Green – Assistant Government Whip
Nick Hurd MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner – Minister of State (Home Office)
Alistair Bury MP North East Bedford – Minister of State (FCO)
Olicer Dowden MP for Hertsmere  – Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Nigel Adams MP for Selby and Ainsty – (Lord Commisioner HM Treasury)
Amanda Milling MP Canock Chase – Assistant Whip (Treasury)
Justin Tomlinson MP North Swindon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary DWP)

Members of parliament wishing to join the APPG can either write to us at appg@leaseholdknowledge.com or contact any of the co chairs Sir Peter Bottomley MP, Jim Fitzpatrick MP and Sir Edward Davey MP.

The APPG issued their first interim report at the end of the last parliament which can be read HERE

The aims of the All Party Parliamentary Group were last updated on 5th July 2017:

• To consider ways in which leasehold and commonhold legislation and regulation might be improved.
• To examine those elements of current legislation and regulation which are seen as defective.
• To look at ways to reduce the opportunities for exploitation and ways to alleviate the distress and hardship faced by some leaseholders, particularly the more vulnerable and elderly leaseholder.
• To consider how the current cost imbalance at the leasehold property Tribunal might be addressed, how the Tribunal might be developed for use under revised commonhold legislation and how it might return to parliament’s original intention as a low cost forum for disputes and redress.
• To consider and to make known objectionable and unacceptable behaviour in the sector.
• To consider those matters in leasehold insurance and service charge funds which currently fall outside the regulatory framework of the FCA.
• To consider the different issues faced in the private sector and in the social sectors
• To liaise with and monitor the actions of the various government departments dealing with leasehold and commonhold issues along with the activities of publicly funded bodies working in this area.
• To review commonhold legislation to explore how to better implement this form of tenure so it works as parliament intended.

LIST OF APPG MPs and LORDS

Debbie	Abrahams MP	Oldham East and Saddleworth
Rushanara	Ali MP	Bethnal Green and Bow
Lucy	Allan MP	Telford
Mike	Amesbury MP	Weaver Vale
Sir David	Amess MP	Southend West
Tonia	Antoniazzi MP	Gower
Jon	Ashworth MP	Leicester South
Ian	Austin MP	Dudley North
Sir Henry	Bellingham MP	North West Norfolk
Hilary	Benn MP	Leeds Central
Bob	Blackman MP	Harrow East
Sir Peter	Bottomley MP	Worthing West
Graham	Brady MP	Altrincham and Sale West
Lyn	Brown MP	West Ham
Nick	Brown MP	Newcastle upon Tyne East
Fiona	Bruce MP	Congleton
Sir Vince	Cable MP	Twickenham
Ruth	Cadbury MP	Brentford and Isleworth
Alan	Campbell MP	Tynemouth
Ronnie	Campbell MP	Blyth Valley
Dan	Carden MP	Liverpool, Walton
Alex	Chalk MP	Cheltenham
Bambos	Charalambous MP	Enfield Southgate
Rosie	Cooper MP	West Lancashire
Robert	Courts MP	Witney and West Oxfordshire
Neil	Coyle MP	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Sir David	Crausby MP	Bolton North East
John	Cryer MP	Leyton and Wanstead
Nic	Dakin MP	Scunthorpe
Geraint	Daveis MP	Swansea West
Sir Edward	Davey MP	Kingston and Surbiton
Marsha	De Cordova MP	Battersea
Emma	Dent Coed MP	Kensington
Stephen	Doughty MP	Cardiff South and Penarth
Steve	Double MP	St Austell and Newquay
Jack	Dromey MP	Birmingham, Erdington
Rosie	Diffield MP	Cantebury
Julie	Elliot MP	Sunderland Central
Chris	Elmore MP	Ogmore
Bill	Esterson MP	Sefton Central
Nigel	Evans MP	Ribble Valley
Tim	Farron MP	Westmorland & Lonsdale
Frank	Field MP	Birkenhead
Jim	Fitzpatrick MP	Poplar and Limehouse
Paul	Flynn MP	Newport West
Marcus	Fysh MP	Yeovil
Barry	Gardiner MP	Brent North
Ruth	George MP	High Peak
Mary	Glindon MP	North Tyneside
Roger	Godsiff MP	Birmingham, Hall Green
Zac	Goldsmith	Richmond Park
Helen	Goodman MP	Bishop Auckland
Helen	Grant MP	Maidstone and The Weald
Chris	Green MP	Bolton West
Kate	Green MP	Stretford and Urmston
John	Grogan MP	Keighley
Andrew	Gwynne MP	Denton and Reddish
Louise	Haigh MP	Sheffield, Heeley
Stephen	Hammond MP	Wimbledon
David	Hanson MP	Delyn
Richard	Harrington MP	Watford
Emma	Hardy MP	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
Helen	Hayes MP	Dulwich and West Norwood
Sir John	Hayes MP	South Holland and The Deepings
Stephen	Hepburn MP	Jarrow
Nick	Herbert MP	Arundel and South Downs
Mike	Hill MP	Hartlepool
Meg	Hiller MP	Hackney South and Shoreditch
Dame Margaret	Hodge MP	Barking
Sharon	Hodgson MP	Washington and Sunderland West
George	Howarth MP	Knowsley
Lindsay	Hoyle MP	Chorley
Graham	Jones MP	Hyndburn
Kevan	Jones MP	North Durham
Susan Elen	Jones MP	Clwyd South
Preet	Kaur Gill MP	Birmingham, Edgbaston
Gillian	Keegan MP	Chichester
Barbara	Keeley MP	Worsley and Eccles South
Afzal	Khan MP	Manchester, Gorton
Peter	Kyle MP	Hove and Portslade
David	Lammy MP	Tottenham
Sir Edward	Leigh MP	Gainsborough
Ivan	Lesis MP	Bury South
Stephen	Lloyd MP	Eastbourne & Willingdon
Tony	Lloyd MP	Rochdale
Rebecca	Long Bailey MP	Salford and Eccles
Jonathan	Lord MP	Woking
Tim	Loughton MP	East Worthing and Shoreham
Justin	Madders MP	Ellesmere Port and Neston
Seema	Malhotra MP	Feltham and Heston
John	Mann MP	Bassetlaw
Rachael	Maskell MP	York Central
Chris	Matherson MP	City of Chester
Steve	McCabe MP	Birmingham, Selly Oak
Conor	McGinn MP	St Helens North
Alison	McGovern MP	Wirral South
Liz	McInnes MP	Heywood and Middleton
Catherine	McKinnell MP	Newcastle upon Tyne North
Anna	McMorrin MP	Cardiff North
Ian	Mearns MP	Gateshead
Mark	Menzies MP	Fylde
Johnny	Mercer MP	Plymouth, Moor View
Huw	Merriman MP	Bexhill and Battle
Andrew	Mitchell MP	Sutton Coldfield
Layla	Moran MP	Oxford West
David	Morris MP	Morecambe and Lunesdale
Bob	Niel MP	Bromley & Chislehurst
Jerad	O'Mara MP	Sheffield, Hallam
Chi	Onwurah MP	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Kate	Osamor MP	Edmonton
Teresa	Pearce MP	Erith and Thamesmead
Matthew	Pennycook MP	Greenwich and Woolwich
Jo	Platt MP	Leigh
Lucy	Powell MP	Manchester Central
Mark	Prisk MP	Hertford and Stortford
Mark	Pritchard MP	The Wrekin
Will	Quince MP	Colchester
Yasmin	Qureshi MP	Bolton South East
Faisal	Rashid MP	Warrington South
Angela	Rayner MP	Ashton-under-Lyne
Steve	Reed MP	Croydon North
Emma	Reynolds MP	Wolverhampton North East
Jonathan	Reynolds MP	Stalybridge and Hyde
Marie	Rimmer MP	St Helens South and Whiston
Laurence	Robertson MP	Tewkesbury
Mary	Robinson MP	Cheadle
Andrew	Rosindell MP	Romford
Lloyd	Russell-Moyle MP	Brighton, Kemptown
Andrew	Selous MP	South West Bedfordshire
Alec	Shelbrooke MP	Elmet and Rothwell
Tulip	Siddiq MP	Hampstead and Kilburn
Andy	Slaugher MP	Hammersmith
Angela	Smith MP	Penistone and Stocksbridge
Cat	Smith MP	Lancaster and Fleetwood
Eleanor	Smith MP	Wolverhampton South West
Jeff	Smith MP	Manchester Withington
Dame Caroline	Spelman MP	Meriden
Keir	Starmer MP	Holborn and St Pancras
Gary	Streeter MP	South West Devon
Graham	Stringer MP	Blackley and Broughton
Mark	Tami MP	Alyn and Deeside
Derek	Thomas MP	St Ives
Gareth	Thomas MP	Harrow West
Nick	Thomas-Symonds MP	Torfaen
Derek	Twigg MP	Halton
Stephen	Twigg MP	Liverpool West Derby
Liz	Twist MP	Blaydon
Ed	Vaizey MP	Wantage
Tom	Watson MP	West Bromwich East
Hywel	Williams MP	Arfon
Chris	Williamson MP	Derby North
William	Wragg MP	Hazel Grove
Daniel	Zeichner MP	Cambridge
Viscount	Astor
Lord	Best
Lord	Campbell-Savours
Baroness	Gardner of Parkes
Baroness	Golding
Lord	Greaves
Baroness	Hamwee
Baroness	Hayter
Lord	Kennedy of Southwark
Lord	Kerslake
Baroness	McIntosh of Pickering
Lord	O’Neill of Clackmannan
Lord	Thurlow
Lord	Truscott

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