FP parliamentary session & another failed sale
Abbey Beyene
Dear Dan & Simon
I have watched the parliamentary committee session from 3 February 2026 on FirstPort and was deeply disappointed. I have attached the recording for context.
The FirstPort representative was repeatedly allowed to avoid direct questions through vague language, repetition, and diversion. Despite being briefed in advance, FP failed to provide clear or complete answers, including on its own financial arrangements. For an organisation entrusted with residents’ money, this was unacceptable and felt like a poor use of parliamentary time.
While relevant questions were asked, FP was allowed to control the narrative. There was little sense of urgency or insistence on clear answers. Only those hiding things would deflect in this way.
Residents also do not feel represented at this stage. We are still awaiting the meeting you agreed to arrange with FP and Taylor Wimpey, with the only update being that you are “still trying” to secure engagement. If an MP cannot obtain a response, it is difficult to see what chance ordinary leaseholders have. In the meantime, we continue to be pursued for approximately £60k in costs incurred while the building was still within warranty, while our substantive questions are ignored.
This pattern of prolonged awareness, weak challenge, and delayed action is reminiscent of the Horizon scandal. Residents are already paying the price.
Given that two confirmed flat sales have now collapsed due to FP’s failures, I would ask that you raise this again with the committee and with DLUHC as evidence of tangible, market-level, real human harm. Voluntary assurances are clearly not working. What is needed now is proper scrutiny, enforceable standards, and consequences.
Kind regards,
Abbey
