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1700457

	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 steps his Department is taking to secure contributions towards the costs of building safety remediation from (a) cladding manufacturers, (b) insulation manufacturers, (c) fire door manufacturers, (d) architects, (e) building contractors, (f) building control organisations and (g) warranty providers.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	21344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>I refer my Hon Gentleman to the oral statement made in the House of Commons on 26th March 2024 (<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-03-26/debates/BA51F5D2-6BFA-4E86-8183-42146118962C/BuildingSafety#contribution-84D93C6A-CC39-4A62-833B-2655FD3B46CD" target="_blank">Official Report HC, Volume 747, Column 1414</a>).</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 22/04/2024 16:51:36 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700456

	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, with reference to the answers to Question 101 to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee on 21 September 2020 on Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Building Safety Bill on 21 September 2020, HC 466, what data his Department holds on the number of buildings where the NHBC validated the claims for major fire safety remediation works.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	21343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on Building Safety Remediation progress is published on gov.uk. The department does not hold data on the number of buildings requiring remediation for life-critical fire-safety defects that were approved by building control provided by NHBC, other private Approved Inspectors and Local Authority Building Control, or on the number of buildings where the NHBC validated the claims for major fire safety remediation works.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21342 question first answered 22/04/2024 14:04:09 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700455

	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 information his Department holds on the number of buildings requiring remediation for life-critical fire-safety defects that were approved by building control provided by (a) NHBC, (b) other private Approved Inspectors and (c) Local Authority Building Control.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	21342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on Building Safety Remediation progress is published on gov.uk. The department does not hold data on the number of buildings requiring remediation for life-critical fire-safety defects that were approved by building control provided by NHBC, other private Approved Inspectors and Local Authority Building Control, or on the number of buildings where the NHBC validated the claims for major fire safety remediation works.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21343 question first answered 22/04/2024 14:04:09 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

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

1700461

	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	Building Regulations: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2023 to Question 3014 on Building Regulations: Fire Prevention, what recent progress his Department has made on the property protection workstream.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	21348
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/technical-review-of-approved-document-b-of-the-building-regulations-a-call-for-evidence/outcome/technical-review-of-approved-document-b-2022-progress-update" target="_blank">Technical Review of Approved Document B</a> was published on 6 June 2022. Research on the property protection workstream has completed. Government will consider findings, then publish the research and an update on the workstream in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 22/04/2024 13:57:29 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

1700463

	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	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the average time taken for his Department to respond to leaseholder correspondence sent to the Under11mBuildings@LevellingUp.gov.uk email address in 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	21350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) places great importance on the effective and timely handling of correspondence. Although given the volume and complexity of some of the cases being received it does often take time to work through those cases.</p><p>As per the Cabinet Office’s Guide to Handling Correspondence on GOV.UK, response times are measured against a 20-working day target deadline. We, therefore, do not collect data on the average length of time to respond to correspondence on specific policy issues.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21349 question first answered 22/04/2024 13:54:41 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700462

	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, if he will make an estimate of the average time taken for his Department to respond to leaseholder correspondence on building safety matters in 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	21349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) places great importance on the effective and timely handling of correspondence. Although given the volume and complexity of some of the cases being received it does often take time to work through those cases.</p><p>As per the Cabinet Office’s Guide to Handling Correspondence on GOV.UK, response times are measured against a 20-working day target deadline. We, therefore, do not collect data on the average length of time to respond to correspondence on specific policy issues.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21350 question first answered 22/04/2024 13:54:41 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