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Matthew Pennycook
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 42 |
Born | Hammersmith |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
Office | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Party | Labour Party |
Job | Politician |
Education | Balliol College |
London School of Economics and Political Science | |
Coombe Boys' School | |
Official site | parliament.uk |
Position | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2015 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Previous position | Shadow Minister for Climate Change of the United Kingdom (2020–2021) |
Date of birth | January 1,1982 |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 405315 |
Matthew Pennycook Life story
Matthew Thomas Pennycook is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Greenwich and Woolwich since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning since 2021.
Leasehold ban not included in housing reform law
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... " Not only does this long overdue piece of legislation not ensure that new flats will be sold as freehold, contrary to what ministers have claimed it doesn t even do what it says on the tin and ban the sale of new leasehold houses, " Labour s shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook said...
Leasehold law will be in King's Speech, says housing minister
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... Labour s shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook dismissed the government s plans, saying: " If this thin gruel is all we re getting in the King s Speech, leaseholders will have been failed...
Labour fears no-fault eviction ban will be delayed
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... That response caught the attention of shadow housing minister, Matthew Pennycook, who said " court improvements could take years" and could amount to " an effective deferral of the abolition of Section 21"...
Social housing bosses could need formal qualifications
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... " Shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook said: " We know from the circumstances leading up to the fire at Grenfell and those surrounding the death of Awaab Ishak that poorly managed social housing can literally kill...
Cladding: Michael Gove to vow to pursue firms behind safety problems
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... Shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook called on the government to amend the Building Safety Bill, adding leaseholders should be " fully protected in law from the costs of fixing all historic defects"...
Brexit: What's behind Corbyn's letter to May?
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... One frontbencher - Matthew Pennycook - has suggested the party must move to support a referendum, if Labour s new offer isn t accepted...