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1700434

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Northwich Station: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to announce the outcome of Northwich Station’s Access for All funding bid.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>As part of our recent Network North announcement, the Government confirmed £350m will be made available to improve the accessibility of our train stations. We are assessing over 300 nominations for the next round of Access for All funding, including a nomination for Northwich railway station. If successful, the funding will create an obstacle free, accessible route from the station entrance to platforms. Successful nominations will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 22/04/2024 10:42:17 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700445

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the independent report by Carlo Breen into the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust’s historic management of concerns in relation to a Consultant Spinal Surgeon, published on 7 March 2024.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust commissioned the Spinal Patient Safety Look Back review in 2021. A report detailing the findings was published in July 2023. A second report was commissioned by the trust to review the historic management of concerns raised in relation to a particular surgeon. The findings of this report were published on 7 March 2024, and relate to issues that include bullying, speaking up, the duty of candour, governance, and the quality of disciplinary investigations at the trust.</p><p>The Government is already taking action in relation to policies relevant to the report’s findings. This includes strengthening leadership, the statutory duty of candour, and speaking up to promote an open and transparent learning culture in the National Health Service. We also expect NHS organisations to have robust policies in place to tackle bullying and harassment.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 19/04/2024 13:25:02 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700446

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that risk assessors commissioned by participant developers in the self-remediation scheme are (a) independent and (b) not reliant on one developer for their entire income.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The developer remediation contract requires that relevant assessors are suitably experienced, qualified, independent and competent. The department also requires the developer and the assessor to sign statements confirming that they are separate financial entities, in line with guidance issued by authorities including RICS, the International Arbitration Board, the International Bar Association and ISO/IEC 17020:2012 Conformity assessment.</p><p>The department does not recommend a list of assessors to developers. The British Standards Institution’s PAS 9980 standard and the developer remediation contract make clear that relevant assessors must meet the required standard, and the department regularly commissions independent audits of assessments obtained by developers to make sure that those standards have been met.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21334 question first answered 22/04/2024 14:01:15 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700447

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing developers participating in the self-remediation scheme with a list of firms from which the Cladding Safety Scheme will accept Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls assessments.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The developer remediation contract requires that relevant assessors are suitably experienced, qualified, independent and competent. The department also requires the developer and the assessor to sign statements confirming that they are separate financial entities, in line with guidance issued by authorities including RICS, the International Arbitration Board, the International Bar Association and ISO/IEC 17020:2012 Conformity assessment.</p><p>The department does not recommend a list of assessors to developers. The British Standards Institution’s PAS 9980 standard and the developer remediation contract make clear that relevant assessors must meet the required standard, and the department regularly commissions independent audits of assessments obtained by developers to make sure that those standards have been met.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21333 question first answered 22/04/2024 14:01:15 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700448

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many buildings with life-critical fire-safety defects are excluded from the developer self-remediation terms because a signatory to the developer contract is a joint venture partner who is entitled to less than 50% of the economic return from a building.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>No developer has provided the evidence required by the joint venture clause to show that they are less than 50% responsible for any of their listed buildings, so all developers are liable for 100% of the costs of remediating the relevant buildings. Developers are obligated to remediate buildings covered by the contract as soon as they are able.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21337 question first answered 22/04/2024 13:53:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700450

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to clause 18.2(B) of the Developer self-remediation contract, published on 30 January 2023, what the maximum time permitted is for a developer to delay commencement of works while they use reasonable endeavours to recover costs from other joint venture partners.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>No developer has provided the evidence required by the joint venture clause to show that they are less than 50% responsible for any of their listed buildings, so all developers are liable for 100% of the costs of remediating the relevant buildings. Developers are obligated to remediate buildings covered by the contract as soon as they are able.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21335 question first answered 22/04/2024 13:53:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700451

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of developers in the Responsible Actors Scheme complying with the Code of Practice for the remediation of residential buildings.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>We have been clear that all remediation projects should comply with the Code. We will take appropriate action where there is a failure to comply, including legislating if necessary.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21339 21340 question first answered 22/04/2024 13:49:00 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700452

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an audit programme to ensure compliance with the Code of Practice for the remediation of residential buildings.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>We have been clear that all remediation projects should comply with the Code. We will take appropriate action where there is a failure to comply, including legislating if necessary.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21338 21340 question first answered 22/04/2024 13:49:00 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700453

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making the Code of Practice for the remediation of residential buildings legally binding.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>We have been clear that all remediation projects should comply with the Code. We will take appropriate action where there is a failure to comply, including legislating if necessary.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21338 21339 question first answered 22/04/2024 13:49:00 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700454

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release, updated on 26 March 2024, for how many and what proportion of social housing buildings where works have (a) started and (b) completed, the source of remediation funding is (i) the Registered Provider, (ii) Government funding and (iii) developer funding.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The data we published in March identified 1,952 buildings in the social sector requiring cladding remediation. Of those, 204 buildings (10%) were reported to have completed works and 525 buildings (27%) were reported to have started works.</p><p>Government has funded works in 144 social housing buildings through the Social Sector Cladding Remediation Fund (135 completed and nine underway), 167 buildings through the Building Safety Fund (50 completed and 56 underway), and 36 buildings in the recently launched Cladding Safety Scheme. Buildings may appear in more than one fund.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 22/04/2024 13:56:57 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury