Parliamentary monitoring

In addition to lobbying central government and producing regular briefings for MPs the NFA has established a successful All Party Parliamentary Group on ALMO issues and provides a parliamentary monitoring service keeping ALMOs updated on relevant issues.

  • ‘Bedroom Tax’ will go before Court of Appeal predicts Barrister; Councils look to PRS to increase returns; Written Parliamentary Questions

    07 March 2014

  • Ed Davey ‘Green Deal has been disappointing’

    06 March 2014

  • Landlord’s arrears rise by £241,000 during universal credit pilot

    05 March 2014

  • Replace ‘unfair’ council tax with property and income hybrid; British Property Federation calls for land banking review

    05 March 2014

  • Replace ‘unfair’ council tax with property and income hybrid; British Property Federation calls for land banking review

    05 March 2014

  • Minister: Number incorrectly charged the under-occupation penalty unavailable; CIH: Treasury should forego share of right to buy receipts; CIH: DWP extends definition of exempt accommodation

    04 March 2014

  • Minister: Number incorrectly charged the under-occupation penalty unavailable; CIH: Treasury should forego share of right to buy receipts; CIH: DWP extends definition of exempt accommodation

    04 March 2014

  • MP calls for independent assessment of welfare reform impact on sick and disabled people

    28 February 2014

  • Lib Dems likely to oppose the bedroom tax in 2015; Response to written parliamentary question; Council of Mortgage Lenders: Increase public sector role in house building

    28 February 2014

  • DCLG releases provisional forecast figures for LA capital expenditure and receipts

    27 February 2014

  • Labour holds ‘Bedroom Tax’ debate; Freud to break bedroom tax pledge; DWP: Housing benefit will be sanctioned; NAO: Delays in implementation of PIP

    27 February 2014

  • Chris Bryant MP: Government have made the ‘bedroom tax’ apply to more households

    27 February 2014

  • ‘Labour’s Zero Based Review of public expenditure’ – Chris Leslie MP; Under-occupation of social housing: Housing Benefit entitlement - Commons Library Standard Note

    26 February 2014

  • ‘IDS denial over Bedroom Tax loophole blunder is astonishing’ says Rachel Reeves; Parliamentary Questions; Government putting most vulnerable at risk by scrapping £347 million welfare fund; Landlords Hit Housing Benefit Jackpot

    25 February 2014

  • Government in denial over Bedroom Tax loophole mess; Tackle‘woeful stock’ of affordable homes to get housing benefit bill down safely

    24 February 2014

  • Responses to Bedroom Tax Judgement

    21 February 2014

  • Statement on the judgement on the benefit cap

    21 February 2014

  • Whitehall releasing its grip on unused public land; CIH: We are nowhere near tackling our national housing crisis

    21 February 2014

  • Quarterly house building statistics released

    20 February 2014

  • DWP signals new hope for exempt accommodation; Councils slam fee-charging proposals

    20 February 2014

  • People urged to take up social housing as bedroom tax leaves properties empty; David Cameron: Why the Archbishop of Westminster is wrong about welfare

    19 February 2014

  • People urged to take up social housing as bedroom tax leaves properties empty; David Cameron - Why the Archbishop of Westminster is wrong about welfare

    19 February 2014

  • People urged to take up social housing as bedroom tax leaves properties empty; David Cameron: Why the Archbishop of Westminster is wrong about welfare

    19 February 2014

  • Miliband outlines plan to solve housing crisis

    18 February 2014

  • Galloway tables under-occupancy penalty early day motion; Written parliamentary questions

    14 February 2014