Clive Betts to head ALMO group
Clive Betts has been elected chair of the all-party parliamentary group for arm’s-length management organisations.
The Labour MP for Sheffield South East, who is also chair of the select committee that examines the work of the Communities and Local Government department, will lead the work of the lobbying body.
The group already has 26 member MPs from all the main parties, and will discuss key issues in council housing including the future of ALMOs and tenant empowerment.
In the previous parliament the group lobbied for the government to re-instate funding for ALMOs in funding round six. As a result the ALMOs, whose funding had originally been deferred to 2011/12, received a small pot of money to start their decent homes work.
Mr Betts said: ‘The APPG plays an integral role in enabling MPs and peers to meet ALMO tenants and vice versa. In the last parliament, the group took up several issues on behalf of tenants with ministers and was influential in helping to shape the government’s housing policy.’
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