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	registered interest
	date	20/04/2023
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Budget March 2023: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the equality impact of the Spring Budget 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	904641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>Providing increased opportunities for all, including the most vulnerable in society, has been at the centre of the decisions taken at Spring Budget 2023. Older people, women, individuals from ethnically diverse backgrounds and disabled people are amongst those who will benefit from the actions taken, demonstrating this Government’s belief in fairness and equality of opportunity.</p><p>In developing proposals for the Spring Budget, the Treasury takes care to consider the equality impacts on those sharing protected characteristics, including gender, race, and disability, in line with both its legal obligations and this Government’s strong commitment to promoting fairness.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/04/2023 14:17:18 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

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

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

1471157

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2022
	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	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, in what timescale the verification of developer-led remediation of unsafe buildings to PAS9980 standards will take place including during remediation and following remediation works being marked as complete by a developer.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	19714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>In signing the pledge, developers have committed to working at pace with government to finalise arrangements and commence remediation or mitigation work as quickly as reasonably possible. We also expect such developers to demonstrate that work is being progressed as quickly as reasonably possible as part of agreed monitoring arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 21/06/2022 16:51:40 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1455393

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2022
	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	Flats: 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, if he will make it his policy to provide financial support for buy to let owners of multiple flats facing cladding remediation costs.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	149400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>Over 35 developers have agreed to take responsibility for all necessary work to address life-critical, fire-safety defects on buildings 11 metres and over that they had a role in developing or refurbishing over the past 30 years. This includes non-cladding.</p><p>In addition to the commitment made by firms to fix buildings they have played a role in developing in the last 30 years we will establish a new 11-18m cladding remediation scheme through which to fund work on buildings where a responsible developer cannot be identified. The new scheme will be funded by expanding the scope of the Building Safety Levy to raise an additional estimated £3bn, providing the necessary funds to address cladding issues on these remaining buildings.</p><p>In addition, leaseholders who are buy-to-let landlords are able to benefit from funding from the Building Safety Fund for eligible remediation works on residential buildings 18 metres and above in England, subject to the relevant subsidy control requirements. Eligibility criteria for the Building Safety Fund can be found in the Building Safety Fund Prospectus at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fremediation-of-non-acm-buildings%23prospectus---outlining-eligibility-for-the-fund(opens&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C990f6b6fe89c451b90c508da221f2ad5%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637859814494392105%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fskDMiBTXygoh39wCEPDmJKQ9%2FHS0xbl5MkmX3t98nU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings#prospectus---outlining-eligibility-for-the-fund(opens</a>) and specific guidance on subsidy control and declarations can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fremediation-of-non-acm-buildings%23subsidy-control-guidance-and-declaration(opens&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C990f6b6fe89c451b90c508da221f2ad5%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637859814494392105%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=XvtDovRIF93d2vBFqy0lNXZgWI79SzKpV6m07ASbNA0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings#subsidy-control-guidance-and-declaration(opens</a> ).</p><p>The Building Safety Bill introduces further leasehold protections. It eradicates the idea that leaseholders should be the first port of call to pay to fix historical building safety defects. Those responsible, and otherwise those with the broadest shoulders, will be the first who are required to pay. Where there is no party that clearly should pay in full for non-cladding defects, and only in this scenario, our approach spreads the costs and ensures above all that the most vulnerable leaseholders are protected. Importantly, any leaseholder contributions for non-cladding defects and interim measures will be subject to a fixed cap. Going forward, most qualifying leaseholders will pay less than the cap, and many will pay nothing at all.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/04/2022 16:49:42 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson