This week I have been focused on my constituents at The Mill on the Waterfront who are in “cladding purgatory”, in some cases, for over 10 years.

I continue to meet with residents every week to give updates on what the Government is doing to help them.

I am also in continuous contact with Lee Rowley MP, Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Building Safety and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). In my conversations with the Minister and DLUHC,

I am pressing for the funds to be provided to fix the cladding and structural issues in the development.

At the start of October, RSM the administrator for the property, were taking the steps to place the freehold company Wharfside Regeneration into liquidation which left residents fearing their homes would become worthless.

Since then, RSM, given conversations they have had have decided to cease the move to liquidation and remain in administration. This is positive news.

I have held meetings with Homes England and DLHUC who have agreed with RSM to fund a report of the Fire Risk Assessment of External Walls (FRAEW) which will give a comprehensive view of the cladding and structural problems.

Once the report is published in early January, we will know more about the future plans to fix the issues.

This comes at a cost which is far greater than originally estimated in 2010, when the problems were discovered.

Since then, the freehold company Wharfside Regeneration has been in administration with the main creditors being the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA). In a settlement fee, RSM received £15m to fix the cladding issues from the developers.

NAMA took £10.1m of this settlement fee and left £1.9m for RSM to use for the maintenance of the property and look for a potential buyer.

This left RSM with a time limit which will run out by the end of the first quarter of next year.

Yesterday, I was able to ask The Leader of the House, Penny Mordaunt MP, in Business questions, what the Government is doing to stop the deeply immoral way in which NAMA have acted.

Their behaviour has caused residents anxiety and stress for over 10 years and continues to do so. I also asked if the Prime Minister could raise this issue with his counterpart in Ireland.

This situation is the first of its kind, and I do not want this to happen again. The Government must take a strong approach to protecting those affected by this.

This is certainly an issue which has deeply affected Ipswich, with a number of high-rise buildings having problems and leaving residents fearing for their homes. Ipswich seems to be one of the worst impacted areas in the country.

Over the past decade, there have been a number of buildings that have been signed off by Ipswich Borough Council as meeting the requirements for building safety, in spite of falling short of the requirements at that time.

A number of different people and organisations have serious questions to answer.

However, my immediate focus has been getting my constituents out of this limbo and working with others to try and find a solution that enables them to break free from this nightmare.

This goes far beyond just Ipswich. I have been contacted by other MPs who have had constituents affected by the issues at The Mill.

We have produced and signed a letter collectively asking for this issue to be resolved in a timely manner and that DLUHC and homes England produce the FRAEW report urgently. This will allow the necessary works to start to rectify the problems.

I will continue to raise this issue with the Government and meet with my constituents connected to The Mill development on a weekly basis for as long as necessary.