AA Director Ingrid Schroder joins a new, independent, Housing Policy and Delivery Oversight Committee which is supported by the Family Building Society; a mutual building society formed to monitor and help government progress on mending the UK’s housing crisis. The new committee will monitor progress and offer constructive analysis and policy suggestions on housing delivery. As well as broadening the debate from the Government’s disproportionate focus on new build, the committee may also consider other options such as better utilisation of existing buildings.

It is the first time that experts across every critical aspect of housing policy, from design, planning, financing to building have been brought together to monitor the Government’s performance.

Sir Vince Cable has agreed to chair the committee, and Schroder joins the following members: Mark Bogard, Chief Executive of the Family Building Society; Neil Jefferson, CEO of the Home Builders Federation; Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research; Professor Tony Travers, a director of the LSE London; Luke Murphy, Labour MP for Basingstoke; and The Rt Hon Damian Green, Chair, Social Care Foundation.

Academic expertise and support is provided by Professor Christine Whitehead of the LSE and Kelvin McDonald, Director of Studies in Land Economy at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Image: AA Director Ingrid Schroder introducing the Diploma Honours 2025 presentations at the AA. Credit: Elena Andreea Teleaga.