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Matthew Pennycook is a widely respected minister. To insinuate that the government "knowingly left" specific flaws in this legislation is totally disingenuous and entirely wrong. I was the minister responsible and I worked closely with officials, after I left government I sat on the bill committee that scrutinised this. I do not recall Pennycook ever mentioning these flaws while he was shadowing me or my successor. He is talking about technical legislation drafted by government lawyers. The same ones that advised us, and are now advising him. Drafting errors occur every single day in government business, that's why governments put down amendments to their own legislation every day in both houses. Pennycook knows this full well. I've been the first one to say we made mistakes in government and we got things wrong. But for Pennycook to make this allegation quite shameful and I hope he takes it down and apologises. I've put down PQs on these so-called "flaws" and I've attached answers from the government to this post. Judge for yourself. We were making the running on this, after years of inaction by successive governments And had he and his Housing Secretaries had the best interests of leaseholders at heart, as soon as he had got his feet under the desk and discovered these drafting errors, they could have taken action. It's now more than two years since they won a landslide and they've not tackled it. So spare me this type of misinformation and criticism! questions-statements.parliam…