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Capacity in the homebuilding industry inquiry

Inquiry by the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 5 July 2016 to 1 May 2017. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 17 October 2016: John Slaughter, Director of External Affairs, Home Builders Federation, Richard Blyth, Head of Policy, Practice and Research, Royal Town Planning Institute, David Cowans, Chief Executive, Places for People, and Sarah McMonagle, Director of External Affairs, Federation of Master Builders.
  • 31 October 2016: David Jenkinson, Group Managing Director, Persimmon PLC, David Thomas, Group Chief Executive, Barratt Developments, and Pete Redfern, Chief Executive, Taylor Wimpey PLC.
  • 21 November 2016: Daniel Gath, Managing Director, Daniel Gath Homes, Rt Hon. David Heathcoat-Amory, Director, Devonshire Homes Ltd, and Adrian Swan, Managing Director, Swan Homes; Chris Brown, Executive Chair and Founder, Igloo Regeneration, Michael Holmes, Chair, National Custom and Self Build Association, Christine Hynes, Chief Executive Officer, 24:7LivingUK, and Marc Vlessing, Chief Executive Officer, Pocket Living (at 4.45pm).
  • 29 November 2016: Sandra Dinneen, Chief Executive, South Norfolk Council, Councillor Peter John, Leader of the Council, London Borough of Southwark, and Tim Hill, Chief Planning Officer, Leeds City Council; Kathleen Kelly, Assistant Director of Policy and Research, National Housing Federation, David Montague, Chief Executive, L&Q, and Matt Harrison, Chief Executive, Great Places (at 4.45pm).
  • 16 January 2017: Mark Farmer, Author, The Farmer Review of the UK construction labour model: modernise or die, Philip Callan, Research Associate, ResPublica, and Michael Ball, Professor of Urban and Property Economics, Henley Business School, University of Reading .
  • 6 February 2017: Sir Edward Lister, Chairman, Gordon More, Chief Investment Officer, and Ian Piper, Head of Land, Homes and Communities Agency; Paul Smee, Director General, Council of Mortgage Lenders, Lewis Sidnick, Director of Coporate Affairs, NHBC, and Samantha Fernley, Business Development Executive, BLP Consultant, BOPAS (at 5.00pm).
  • 27 February 2017: Gavin Barwell MP, Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Department for Communities and Local Government, and Isobel Stephen, Director of Housing Supply, Department for Communities and Local Government.