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1314728

registered interest
date	13/05/2021
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	Buildings: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made for the timeline for the (1) introduction, and (2) progress, of the Building Safety Bill.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2021 answer text <p>The Building Safety Bill was published in draft on 20 July 2020 and has undergone pre-legislative scrutiny by the HCLG Select Committee. The Government has been considering the Committee’s report and recommendations and will introduce the Bill as soon as Parliamentary time allows. We recognise that these are important public safety measures; that is why the Government is committed to progressing the Bill as quickly as possible, so that reforms can be implemented in a timely manner and residents can feel safe, and be safe, in their homes.</p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 25/05/2021 14:26:39 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1308535

registered interest
date	13/04/2021
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	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, when the Government plans to introduce the Building Safety Bill.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	180557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2021 answer text <p>The Building Safety Bill was published in draft on 20 July 2020 and has recently undergone pre-legislative scrutiny by the HCLG Select Committee. We are currently considering the Committee’s report and recommendations and will introduce the Bill in due course. We recognise that these are important public safety measures; that is why the Government is committed to progressing the Bill as quickly as possible, so that reforms can be implemented in a timely manner and residents can feel safe, and be safe, in their homes.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 21/04/2021 14:00:38 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1293668

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	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, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using the proposed Building Safety Bill to Amend Section 1 of the Building Act for the power to make regulations to facilitate the protection of property in a proportionate manner.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	160571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2021 answer text <p>The Building Act 1984 already enables building regulations to be made on matters such as sustainable development and the security of buildings, as well as the health and safety of persons using buildings, and measures to meet these objectives can also have benefits for property protection. The Government has no plans to extend the scope of building regulations at present specifically to address property protection, but will keep this matter under review. In particular, Government will be undertaking research into how fire safety legislation in other countries addresses property protection issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/03/2021 13:16:43 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1289095

registered interest
date	23/02/2021
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	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 draft Building Safety Bill, whether the Golden Thread provision will apply to all buildings.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	157121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>The golden thread will apply to buildings in scope of the new building safety regime. The Government encourages the sector to go further embedding golden thread best practice throughout the industry, ensuring people are responsible and accountable for delivering and maintaining safe buildings, including keeping information.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 01/03/2021 15:17:10 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

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

1245182

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
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: 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 Government update on building safety published in April 2020, what contribution leaseholders will be required to make towards the new building safety measures for properties over eleven metres tall.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	106481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>In April 2020 the Government announced changes to the guidance to the building regulations (Approved Document B) lowering the height threshold from 30 metres to 11 metres for sprinklers in new build blocks of flats, or where existing blocks of flats are undergoing major renovation.</p><p>That change to Approved Documents B also introduced new guidance on providing better wayfinding signage, to assist evacuations and provide safer passage for firefighters and residents around and out of buildings.</p><p>Both of these safety provisions come into effect on 26 November 2020 and were widely welcomed as an important contribution towards resident safety – supported by residents, the fire service and the insurance industry as an important step forward to reducing casualties and protecting property in the event of fire within flats.</p><p>Developers will meet the costs of installation of sprinklers and better wayfinding signage in new buildings as part of the overall build cost. When buying a new flat with sprinklers installed, depending on the service charge provisions in their leases, leaseholders may be required to pay for maintenance and associated repairs of sprinklers and signage.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 23/10/2020 11:55:03 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1243115

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
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: 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, what steps his Department will take to ensure that any baseline for standards in the Building Safety Bill includes (a) a property and (b) a life safety baseline to ensure that individuals can escape but also have a property to return to following a peril event.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	102923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2020 answer text <p>The Building Safety Bill will establish a new, more stringent regime for higher-risk buildings, both in design and construction and for the building in use. It will also drive improvements in building safety and performance standards in all buildings, driving culture change and incentivising compliance. The Bill will ensure that building safety standards are effectively enforced but the standards are not set out in the Bill itself.</p><p>A technical review of Approved Document B (fire safety) of the building regulations is underway. The scope of fire protection requirements will be considered as part of the review, including whether it should be extended to the protection of property in addition to life safety. Details of the review are set out at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F877365%2FTechnical_review_of_Approved_Document_B_workplan.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7CPratul.Pal%40communities.gov.uk%7C00b9b2b22bed4e45c2c308d870e749a8%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637383485954025201%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=cNq2wtzfdxeQd8%2FyWJF0rQ%2FyBWvcI6Oj6KViagJZK9Q%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/877365/Technical_review_of_Approved_Document_B_workplan.pdf.</a></p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 21/10/2020 14:30:04 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1242526

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: 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 recommendation of the Construction Industry Council's interim report entitled, Raising the Bar, published in August 2019, if he will make it his policy to establish a building safety regulator.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	102045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government has committed to establish a new Building Safety Regulator within the Health and Safety Executive. The regulator has begun operating in shadow form in order to prepare for transition to the new regulatory regime. Two of the regulator’s priorities will be to support industry-led work to strengthen professional competence across the sector, and to establish a committee to oversee its progress.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 20/10/2020 13:47:02 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1200039

registered interest
date	03/06/2020
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of widening the scope of the Building Safety Fund to include leaseholders who committed to undertake remedial works prior to 11 March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	54075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of building owners to ensure their buildings are safe for residents. The Government also expects those building owners that have already committed to fund remediation to continue to pay and not pass on remediation costs to leaseholders.</p><p>The new fund is designed to remove financial barriers where building owners do not have the means to fund remediation quickly. Where work was completed or underway before 11 March 2020, resident safety is already being prioritised. In such circumstances leaseholders facing charges for remediation costs should confirm that their building owner sought to recover costs from those originally responsible for the defects or through warranty and insurance claims, where possible.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 08/06/2020 16:32:12 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1194927

registered interest
date	12/05/2020
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, what steps he will take to consult leaseholders and residents on the priorities for the Building Safety Fund.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	46150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2020 answer text <p>Engagement with leaseholders has informed Government's decision to provide £1 billion of funding to support the remediation of buildings with unsafe non-ACM cladding in high-rise residential buildings. We are regularly engaging with key stakeholder groups to understand their views ahead of the launch of the Building Safety Fund and this engagement remains ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 22/05/2020 11:14:13 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury