EV-0057 — Hansard: Ted Rowlands MP criticises Western Ground Rents and BP pension fund

EV ID	EV-0057
Title	Hansard: Ted Rowlands MP criticises Western Ground Rents and BP pension fund
Date of document	22 May 1980
Type	official record
Evidence label	PRIMARY DOCUMENT HELD
Repository / reference	UK Parliament, Hansard: HC Deb 22 May 1980, vol. 985, “Amendments of Leasehold Reform Act 1967 etc.”
Status	HELD — open the scan (image)
Provenance	Wiki copy is an image of the historic Hansard web page at api.parliament.uk; Transcript stated to be transcribed exactly from the official report.
Wiki catalogue page	GHF-E090-N16
Claims that rely on this	House of Lords — Forensic Assessment, Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts, Press Articles Index — every newspaper cutting and press extract, one page each

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Quotation: the most rapacious ground landlord, Western Ground Rents, has been bought by the BP pension fund, which is behaving in the same rapacious and, at times, unfeeling and uncaring way in handling the genuine requests of householders.

Proves: On 22 May 1980, Ted Rowlands MP criticised in the House of Commons how the BP pension fund, as buyer of Western Ground Rents, was treating householders’ requests.

Does not prove: Does not mention Great House Farm, Llandough, or the Williams/Buckler family; Concerns only the WGR–BP ownership chain.