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1422905

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2022
	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	Housing: Insulation
	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 financial support is available for residential blocks under 11 metres whose building owners or property managers are carrying out cladding remediation works.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	125558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The fire risk is lower in buildings under 18 metres and costly remediation work is usually not needed.  Where fire risks are identified, they should always be managed proportionately.  The Government has therefore focussed its financial support on high-rise residential buildings over 18 metres because we know that the risk to multiple households is greater when fire does spread in buildings of this height. The Building Safety Bill will deliver improvements across the entire built environment, including for buildings under 11 metres.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/02/2022 17:36:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1422906

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2022
	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	Housing: Insulation
	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 role local authority building control departments have in helping to tackle unsafe cladding.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	125559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>Building work must comply with the requirements of the Building Regulations. The building control body will inspect building work on site at appropriate stages. The local authority has the power, under Section 36 of the Building Act, to take enforcement action against non-compliant work. It is the duty of anyone responsible for building work to understand and meet their legal obligations.</p><p>Local authorities have duties under the Housing Act 2004 to keep under review the conditions of residential buildings in their areas, as well as powers to act (including formal enforcement) where they consider significant hazards exist. The Government has set out its expectation that local authorities play a key role in addressing the risks of unsafe cladding on high-rise residential buildings in their areas.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/02/2022 17:37:20 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1422907

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2022
	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	Housing: Insulation
	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 he is taking to prevent developers and freeholders from passing on cladding remediation costs to residents through increases to the service charge.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	125560
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>We are clear that building owners and industry should make buildings safe without passing on costs to leaseholders, and leaseholders living in their own medium and high-rise buildings should not have to pay to remediate historic cladding defects that are no fault of their own. That is why we are bringing forth statutory protections in the Building Safety Bill to ensure leaseholders are protected. Developers and freeholders should not be passing on cladding remediation costs to leaseholders in flats over 11 metres through increases to the service charge.</p><p>The Government believes very strongly that service charges should be transparent and communicated effectively. The law is clear that service charges and any increase in costs must be reasonable and, where costs relate to work or services, the work or services must be of a reasonable standard. We established an independent working group chaired by Lord Best to raise standards across the property sector, which also considered improvements to the transparency of service charges. The working group published its final report to Government (available at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fregulation-of-property-agents-working-group-report&amp;data=04%7C01%7CBSP_PQ%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Ca0a36b92fe87408bba7e08d9f6f4ecdc%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637812354065347225%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=qo8YeNv5EDyBeFewkleh14wfhg%2FyPMTN3P8BctOa89o%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulation-of-property-agents-working-group-report</a>) and we are considering the report’s recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 28/02/2022 17:51:28 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1452782

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2022
	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	Housing: Insulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 131061, on Buildings: Insulation, whether he has plans to bring forward proposals in the Building Safety Bill to ensure that leaseholders who are buy-to-let landlords do not pay remediation costs to remove and replace (a) unsafe cladding and (b) non-cladding related fire safety defects, such as defective fire doors, firebreaks and balconies.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	143777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2022 answer text <p>We are clear that building owners and industry should make buildings safe without passing on costs to leaseholders, and leaseholders living in their own medium and high-rise buildings should not have to pay to remediate historic cladding defects that are no fault of their own. We will explore whether this support should extend to other leaseholders, such as buy-to-let landlords. We are also bringing forth statutory protections in the Building Safety Bill to ensure leaseholders are protected.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 29/03/2022 17:24:00 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1465830

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2022
	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	Housing: Insulation
	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 it is his policy that protection for leaseholders from (a) cladding and (b) non-cladding remediation costs cover leaseholders who live in a building that is managed by a resident management company to which they pay a service charge.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	8979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply equally to buildings which are managed by a right to manage (RTM) company or resident management company (RMC) as they do to buildings which are not. Buildings are only exempt from the leaseholder protections measures if the building is collectively owned by the residents, such as in a building where the residents have collectively enfranchised to purchase the freehold.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 8980 8981 question first answered 06/06/2022 16:16:58 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1465831

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2022
	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	Housing: Insulation
	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 his policy is on the protection for leaseholders from (a) cladding and (b) non-cladding remediation costs for leaseholders who live in a building managed by a Right to Manage company.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	8980
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply equally to buildings which are managed by a right to manage (RTM) company or resident management company (RMC) as they do to buildings which are not. Buildings are only exempt from the leaseholder protections measures if the building is collectively owned by the residents, such as in a building where the residents have collectively enfranchised to purchase the freehold.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 8979 8981 question first answered 06/06/2022 16:16:58 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1465832

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2022
	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	Housing: Insulation
	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 his policy is on the protection for leaseholders from (a) cladding and (b) non-cladding remediation costs for leaseholders who live in a building managed by the residents and leaseholders themselves.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	8981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply equally to buildings which are managed by a right to manage (RTM) company or resident management company (RMC) as they do to buildings which are not. Buildings are only exempt from the leaseholder protections measures if the building is collectively owned by the residents, such as in a building where the residents have collectively enfranchised to purchase the freehold.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 8979 8980 question first answered 06/06/2022 16:16:58 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1465833

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2022
	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	Housing: Insulation
	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 has been made of the number of leaseholders who do not qualify for government protection from non-cladding costs because they are a buy to let landlord with more than (a) three, (b) five, (c) 10 and (d) 20 properties.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	8982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act apply to people living in their own homes or with up to three UK properties in total. The protections are designed to protect those living in their own homes from unaffordable remediation bills. In recognition of the circumstances of people with small numbers of additional properties, the protections also apply to leaseholders with up to three UK properties in total. The Department does not hold data on leaseholders with more than three properties.</p><p>There are still significant protections in place for leaseholders with more than three properties. Where more than three properties are owned, the principal home always qualifies for the protections. All leaseholders will be protected from all historical building safety remediation costs where their building owner or landlord is – or is connected to – the developer. Where developers have signed up to our developer pledge to fix their own buildings, this will benefit all leaseholders in the building. Leaseholders with more than three properties will also benefit from grant funding for the removal of unsafe cladding. Further, the leaseholder protections measures will drive enhanced proportionality, eliminating unnecessary work and bringing down remediation costs; this will also benefit all leaseholders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 06/06/2022 16:18:03 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1237518

	registered interest
	date	24/09/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support he is making available to eradicate fuel poverty through the insulation of homes in Bosworth.
	tabling member constituency	Bosworth
	tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
	uin	95232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of energy efficiency in tackling fuel poverty.</p><p> </p><p>Through the new £2 billion Green Homes Grant scheme announced by the Chancellor in July, homeowners and landlords across England, including in Bosworth, will be able to apply for vouchers to fund at least two thirds of the cost of upgrading the energy performance of their homes, up to £5,000. Low income households will be eligible for up to 100% government funding, up to £10,000.</p><p> </p><p>Leicestershire County Council also has the opportunity to bid for part of the £500m of the scheme that is being made available to local authorities to directly help low income households.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The scheme could support more than 100,000 green jobs, upgrade more than 600,000 homes, and save households hundreds of pounds a year on their energy bills. This is in addition to existing measures to support improvements in energy efficiency in the homes of those in fuel poverty, such as the Energy Company Obligation (ECO).</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 01/10/2020 13:44:54 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1506604

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	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	Housing: Insulation
	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 impact on the housing market of the guidance note produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on 5 April 2021 entitled Valuation of properties in multi-storey, multi-occupancy residential buildings with cladding.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	51832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department has been consistently clear that the lending and valuation industries have taken an overly cautious and risk-averse approach to building safety across the sector which has in turn impacted a sub-sector of the housing market. RICS are developing new guidance to support the valuation of properties with cladding, which they intend to consult on shortly, and which will reflect the protections contained within the Building Safety Act.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 28/09/2022 16:44:51 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith