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.

  • Peers debate homelessness and overcrowding

    23 May 2013

  • Councils spending almost £2bn on temporary accommodation; Minister defends impact of welfare reforms to finances of social housing providers

    21 May 2013

  • Right to Buy sales more than double in 2012-13; Direct payment pilots extended to end of year; Lords debate spare room subsidy

    16 May 2013

  • Number of long-term empty homes down by 40,800 since Coalition came to office

    13 May 2013

  • Additional measures of interest to ALMOs from Queens Speech

    09 May 2013

  • Queens Speech proposes reducing qualifying period for Right to Buy from 5 to 3 years

    08 May 2013

  • Minister rejects call for councils to carry out fresh asbestos survey on their housing stock

    17 April 2013

  • HCA invites comments on proposed reforms to regulation of social housing assets; DCLG publishes interim projections of household size by council area to 2021; HCA publishes encouraging preliminary figures on housing starts and land disposals

    10 April 2013

  • CLG Committee urges government to consider application of Social Sector Size Criteria for Housing Benefits; Senior Conservatives calls for changes to social housing waiting lists; DCLG launch campaign to get social housing tenants online

    05 April 2013

  • Public Accounts Committee warns Government to better support housing benefit claimants with reforms

    26 March 2013

  • MP calls on Government to remove borrowing cap; Minister praises GCH Co-Co restructure; Nottingham MP praises work of local ALMO ahead of introduction of under-occupancy penalty; Government announces plans to limit immigrants access to social housing

    25 March 2013

  • Budget 2013 – Housing

    20 March 2013

  • Government rejects borrowing cap amendment

    13 March 2013

  • Government provides safeguards for severely disabled children against under-occupancy penalty

    12 March 2013

  • Borrowing cap debated by MPs

    06 March 2013

  • MPs debate Labour motion on new under-occupancy penalty; DWP publishes fact sheet on under-occupancy penalty; Peers table borrowing cap amendment to Growth and Infrastructure Bill

    28 February 2013

  • Andy Rose appointed permanent Chief Executive of HCA; Ministers divided over direct payment of Housing Benefit; DWP publishes latest Housing Benefit statistics

    21 February 2013

  • Lord Shipley questions Government spokesman on housing borrowing cap

    08 February 2013

  • English Housing Survey shows continued improvement in quality of housing; Investigation launched on how London Borough Councils can help to build more homes; Parties clash on Government under occupancy proposals at PMQs

    07 February 2013

  • Local authority borrowing cap included in Government review

    05 February 2013

  • Peers debate removal of housing borrowing cap

    30 January 2013

  • Demolish high-rise social housing blocks, argues think tank; Welfare reforms will increase rent arrears for housing associations, warns NHF

    24 January 2013

  • Housing Minister answers questions from Spectator readers; New Homes Bonus criticised for redistributing funding from North to Southeast

    18 January 2013

  • Minister rejects targets for brownfield development whilst setting out Government development policies; 1.85m households on council waiting lists; Parliamentary debates on housing scheduled for Wednesday 23 January

    17 January 2013

  • Government launches programme to empower social tenants

    07 January 2013