At the National Housing Federation finance conference in
Liverpool Waqar Ahmed, group director of finance at L&Q, said the
government could “by a switch of their pen” scrap the 1% rent cut in 2019/20
and this would generate £2bn for the sector to help pay for fire safety work.
David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, said the sector
had “heard a lot of noise” from government but seen “very, very little concrete
action”. He added: “It’s very difficult to point to something and say as a
result of Grenfell the government has done this.” The government could decide
not to charge VAT on fire safety work carried out by landlords, Mr Orr said.
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