Melanie Ward
Labour

Melanie Ward

MP for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy

Leasehold voting score

No tracked record yet

Melanie Ward has not voted in any of the 7 leasehold divisions we currently track — often because they were elected at the 2024 general election, after these votes took place. We'll show their record here as soon as they vote on a tracked division.

Separate signal · not part of the grade

Votes on housing matters next to leasehold — private renting (the Renters' Rights Bill) and building-safety/cladding costs. These are not leasehold-reform votes and are not counted in the A–F leasehold grade; we show them as extra context.

Melanie Ward voted the leaseholder-aligned way in 10 of 10 related housing votes they took part in.

DateRelated housing divisionHow they voted
9 Oct 2024 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading An opposition amendment that would have declined to give the Renters' Rights Bill (which abolishes 'no-fault' Section 21 evictions) a second reading. It was defeated. Voting No backed letting the tenant-protection bill proceed. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: No Voted No✓ pro-leaseholder
14 Jan 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — Report Stage: Government New Clause 14 A government clause added to the Renters' Rights Bill at report stage. Voting Aye supported strengthening the bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
14 Jan 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — Third Reading The final Commons vote to pass the Renters' Rights Bill — ending 'no-fault' evictions and strengthening renters' rights. Voting Aye passed the bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 11 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change to the Renters' Rights Bill and keep the tenant protections the Commons had passed. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 18 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 19 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 26 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 39 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 53 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 64 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
24 Feb 2021 Fire Safety Act 2021 Fire Safety Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 The Conservative government moved to strike out a House of Lords amendment that would have stopped the cost of fixing fire-safety and cladding defects being passed on to leaseholders. Voting No opposed the government and backed protecting leaseholders from those costs. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: No Did not vote
22 Mar 2021 Fire Safety Act 2021 Fire Safety Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendments 4B–4E (the 'McPartland–Smith' leaseholder protections) Another round of the same fight: the government moved to reject Lords amendments shielding leaseholders from cladding-remediation bills. Voting No backed protecting leaseholders. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: No Did not vote
28 Apr 2021 Fire Safety Act 2021 Fire Safety Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 4L The final Commons round on the Fire Safety Bill: the government again moved to reject leaseholder protection from remediation costs. Voting No backed protecting leaseholders. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: No Did not vote
Why these are shown separately

The leasehold A–F grade is built only from divisions specifically on leasehold reform. Renters' Rights and building-safety votes concern renters and building-safety costs — related and relevant, but a different question — so we keep them in this separate lane with their own simple tally and never let them move the leasehold grade. As with the grade, the votes are fact and the "leaseholder-aligned" direction is our editorial reading.

Relevant registered interests

Property and landlord-related entries from this MP's entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Shown for context; a registered interest is a matter of public record, not an allegation.

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Voting record compiled 14 Jul 2026.