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Peter Bottomley Excerpts
Monday 24th April 2017

(7 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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Yes, I wholeheartedly I agree with my hon. Friend. It is our ambition—I know that she shares it—to end rough sleeping in our country, and those kinds of new ideas can make a real difference.

Peter Bottomley Portrait Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West) (Con)
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Following last week’s successful and important meeting of the all-party parliamentary group on leasehold and commonhold reform about unfair and unreasonable abuses of leasehold, what are the Government’s plans to do something about them?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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First, may I commend my hon. Friend on his work to highlight abuses? I know that he shares my concern about where houses are sold on leasehold. That is an unacceptable practice and we will do something about it.