Politicians intervening in leasehold disputes

Since the last UK general election, Labour and Lib Dem MPs have taken to interceding with property managing agents for leasehold and freehold dwellings.

(the list above is being updated after the original posting of this article)

This activity has generally involved inviting managing agents such as FirstPort to Parliament for discussions, and attempting to obtain new undertakings. They also seem to be keen on announcing things that that already exist, such as a FirstPort team for talking to MPs, as though they haven't had one for the last twenty years.

I am very skeptical about this kind of thing. It raises a number of questions:

• why are these issues not solvable within the existing system?
• does it not implicitly concede that the government doesn't believe that Right To Manage is capable of working?
• doesn't it reputationally damage leasehold assets by implying that they are less risky/expensive to hold if one has a helpful MP?

What other area of law has become reliant on bypassing the courts and getitng individual MPs to intercede? Something's seriously wrong.