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1285595

registered interest
date	10/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to mitigate the potential effect on Gypsies and Travellers of the Home Office proposals outlined in the consultation, Strengthening police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments with regard to proposals to (a) criminalise trespass and (b) seize homes.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	152429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to tackling unauthorised encampments. The Home Office will be publishing a full Government response to the consultation on strengthening police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments. The Home Office have considered all suggestions carefully, and will take account of the potential effect on settled and nomadic communities, before taking a decision on how to proceed.</p><p><br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 22/02/2021 17:31:30 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1252884

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2020 to Question 110299, what the planned timescale is for Michael Wade's report on proposals to protect leaseholders from unaffordable remediation costs.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	116418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>Government Advisor Michael Wade is advising the department on how to protect leaseholders from unaffordable costs. We will provide an update to Parliament before the Building Safety Bill returns to Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 23/11/2020 17:46:16 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1252885

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2020 to Question 110299, whether the work that Michael Wade is developing on protecting leaseholders from unaffordable costs will seek to replace the Building Safety Charge in the Building Safety Bill.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	116419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The proposed Building Safety Charge has been designed to ensure that the costs leaseholders pay for building safety measures are transparent and reasonable. We envisage this will include ongoing costs, such as those for the Building Safety Manager, and powers for the Secretary of State to exclude specific costs from being re-charged.</p><p>My department is working on proposals to protect leaseholders from unfair costs caused by historic building safety defects.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/11/2020 16:45:43 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1252887

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Building Safety to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee on 19 October 2020, whether the Government plans to implement a similar system to Flood Re in order to protect leaseholders from unaffordable costs.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	116420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>The department is working on proposals to protect leaseholders from unaffordable costs caused by historic building safety defects. We will provide an update before the Building Safety Bill returns to Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 23/11/2020 17:45:56 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1252888

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Building Safety to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee on 19 October 2020, for what reason the Government decided to change its policy on allowing costs to be placed onto leaseholders.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	116421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>It is unacceptable for leaseholders to have to worry about the cost of fixing historic safety defects in their buildings that they did not cause. Government has repeatedly said that building owners should step up and not pass these costs on to leaseholders, where possible.</p><p>Where developers or building owners have been unable or unwilling to pay, we have introduced funding schemes providing £1.6 billion to accelerate the pace of work and meet the costs of remediating the highest risk and most expensive defects – Aluminium Composite Material cladding and other unsafe cladding systems like High Pressure Laminates.</p><p>The department is working on proposals to protect leaseholders from unfair costs caused by historic building safety defects. We will provide an update before the Building Safety Bill returns to Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/11/2020 16:36:54 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1252889

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Building Safety to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee on 19 October 2020, whether the Building Safety Charge will apply to retrospective building faults.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	116422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The proposed Building Safety Charge has been designed to ensure that the costs leaseholders pay for building safety measures are transparent and reasonable. We envisage this will include ongoing costs, such as those for the Building Safety Manager, and powers for the Secretary of State to exclude specific costs from being re-charged.</p><p>The department is working on proposals to protect leaseholders from unfair costs caused by historic building safety defects.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/11/2020 16:46:10 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1252890

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which external financial advisers are working with Michael Wade on protecting leaseholders from unaffordable costs.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	116423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>Michael Wade has engaged with a number of stakeholders from the financial sector, including lenders, insurers and their representative bodies. He has not employed one specific financial adviser to work with him on this project, rather he has sought input from across the sector.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/11/2020 16:49:51 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1252891

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2020 to Question 110299 on High Rise Flats: Insulation, what plans he has in place to ensure that the funding solution that Michael Wade is drawing up will work when leaseholders are financially unable to pay for remediation costs.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	116424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The department is undertaking analysis on the affordability of costs for leaseholders and an update to the analysis will be included in the revised Impact Assessment to the Building Safety Bill.</p><p>My department will provide an update before the Building Safety Bill returns to Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/11/2020 16:37:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1252892

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2020 to Question 110299 on High Rise Flats: Insulation, whether the leaseholder funding solution that Michael Wade is working on will prioritise the buildings most at risk.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	116425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2020 answer text <p>The programme has prioritised remediation of combustible cladding – and particularly Aluminium Composite Material cladding– because it acts as a fire accelerant and poses the greatest risk of fire spread. We have made £1.6 billion available to support the remediation of unsafe cladding.</p><p>Our impact assessment also identifies work not related to cladding that will need to be remediated. Michael Wade, senior adviser to MHCLG, is working with leaseholders and the financial sector to identify financing solutions that protect leaseholders from unfair costs of building safety works while ensuring that the bill does not fall on taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/11/2020 16:38:21 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1242418

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish the outcome of the review of the ban on the use of combustible materials in and on the external walls of buildings.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	101994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN 100277 on 12 October 2020.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 102154 question first answered 15/10/2020 14:38:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter