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 READ |
| Repository / reference | UK Parliament, Hansard: HC Deb 22 May 1980, vol. 985, “Amendments of Leasehold Reform Act 1967 etc.” |
| Status | PUBLISHED — 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.
File stored in the wayback archive: EV-0057 in the artifact index.
Interpretation: working hypotheses
Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).
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DISCARDED THEORY · H-04DISCARDED: the theory that the 22 May 1980 Commons debate put the farm dispute before Parliament before the 1983 registration. Reason: the debate concerns leasehold valuations and Western Ground Rents' sale to the BP pension fund; Llandough, the farm and Mrs Buckler are not mentioned.
Rests on: EV-0057 (this page) · research log E05, E48
Would be confirmed by: Would be revived by another Hansard entry naming the farm.
Would be refuted by: Refuted on the debate text.
Status: Discarded
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