The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has launched an inquiry on leasehold reform.

This is an issue that is currently affecting a number of my constituents, so I am pleased to hear that the Committee has taken up these concerns.

If you have been affected, or have an interest in this issue, you can make a written submission via the following link.

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I am very concerned for some of my poorest constituents who are eligible for £140 off their energy bills through the Warm Home Discount but not receiving it, because of a legal restriction – you only get it if your energy supplier has more than 250,000 customers.

I have joined with other MPs across the main political parties in asking the Government to look again at making it possible for all such vulnerable consumers to receive the same guaranteed support, irrespective of who happens to supply their energy – as recommended by Citizens Advice.

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I have challenged the Prime Minister to intervene in the case of more than 13,000 Sainsbury’s workers who are being given a worse pay deal under what is described as ‘unscrupulous contract changes’ - leaving each of them up to £3000 worse off a year.

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I am pressing the Home Office to provide the proper and adequate resources required to deal with the new fast-route EU citizens settlement programme they are planning to introduce by November this year.

The Government has also declared an amnesty on Commonwealth citizens and is having to implement a helpline and support for the Windrush generation, which will extend to others.

I have asked the minister: ‘Does she seriously believe that, practically, the Home Office and the Government have the resources to deal with this, and can she reassure my constituents?’

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The Home Office has finally acknowledged its responsibility to British Citizens from the Caribbean - the Windrush generation. I am supporting a number of constituents.

But now, shockingly, we are finding other Commonwealth citizens who are in the same position. Where will all this end?

They are originally from Africa, but they are British, and yet they do not have the paperwork to prove it. The paper Immigration and Nationality Directorate ​letters that people come to my advice surgeries clutching have been enough to get them a job and their entitlements up to now.

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I have been challenging the Government time and again on the costs of Brexit. We are still woefully short on ​information, but I am on the march, with others, so I warn the Government - they had better be prepared.

The Public Accounts Committee, which I chair, and the Treasury Committee, are already pressing the Treasury and other Government departments about what the total cost will be.

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The law on use of digital images and consent needs to be changed.

Speaking in the House recently, I said the current law does not appear to recognise the difference between viewing someone naked, and filming/photographing someone naked - without consent.

Would most people be happy being deliberately filmed or photographed doing a private act, without having consented to the video or photo  – filmed by another person (partner, spouse or stranger) - despite the fact that the other person was present with them whilst the private act was being carried out?

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