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1659566

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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: 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, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that property management companies repair building facilities required for (a) public safety and (b) mobility without delay.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	198683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>Everyone has the right to a safe and secure home, and this Government is taking steps to increase quality and regulation across all housing stock. This includes reviewing the Decent Homes Standard, improving the way social housing is regulated through The Social Housing Regulation Act 2023 and delivering a better deal for renters through the Renters (Reform) Bill.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 19/09/2023 15:43:20 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1644641

registered interest
date	14/06/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Buildings: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department is taking steps to compile a list of public buildings affected by construction with Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	189624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office’s Office of Government Property is establishing a Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Working Group. Objectives include understanding the scale of the issue, developing a register of Government buildings impacted, and sharing remedial best practices. Responsibility for safety of individual buildings remains with departments, their arms-length bodies and wider organisations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To address property condition and safety issues such as RAAC more widely, in September 2022 the Office of Government Property established the Better Buildings programme on behalf of the Government Property Function.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 19/06/2023 16:46:47 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1644643

registered interest
date	14/06/2023
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: 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, whether his Department have produced guidance for public buildings affected by Reinforced Autocalved Aerated Concrete.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	189625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>Government departments are working together on this issue. Guidance has been published by the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1124286%2FReinforced_Autoclaved_Aerated_Concrete_Estates_Guidance-A-C01.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Ccb66d6b2ca994fbbb67a08db70a2c8fd%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638227616681317818%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=DXnJAXIDcdSMq3oUboRxGTXqccH4X%2BgB%2B7Dyqa2Q2m8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Department for Education</a> that will help building owners understand the process of assessing, investigating and developing a Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) management and remediation strategy; although it is aimed at the education sector the general principles are applicable to all buildings. Additionally, a report published by the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.istructe.org%2Fresources%2Fguidance%2Freinforced-autoclaved-aerated-concrete-guidance%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Ccb66d6b2ca994fbbb67a08db70a2c8fd%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638227616681317818%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=tZEhUuBqcDCUrzcIeKU%2B0oGEpEdC2rrvDfLx5HnGwuk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Institute for Structural Engineers</a> will help improve awareness of RAAC amongst the wider structural engineering community and assist those who are asked by clients to advise on the management and mitigation of RAAC panels.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 19/06/2023 12:45:46 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1641754

registered interest
date	05/06/2023
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: 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, whether his Department plans to provide financial support for (a) councils and (b) private tenants whose buildings were built with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete and now need remedial work.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	187810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>Building standards are a devolved matter, it is for the Scottish Government to determine the action that should be taken on affected buildings in Scotland. In England, building owners are responsible for ensuring their buildings are safe and should act quickly to fix any dangerous defects.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 187811 question first answered 08/06/2023 20:44:10 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1641755

registered interest
date	05/06/2023
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: 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, what guidance his Department issues on the financial support available to (a) councils and (b) private tenants whose buildings were built with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete and now need remedial work.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	187811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>Building standards are a devolved matter, it is for the Scottish Government to determine the action that should be taken on affected buildings in Scotland. In England, building owners are responsible for ensuring their buildings are safe and should act quickly to fix any dangerous defects.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 187810 question first answered 08/06/2023 20:44:10 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1639959

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
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: 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, what assessment he has made of (a) the adequacy of processes for alerting the Recovery Strategy Unit of cases where firms are repeatedly refusing to carry out remediation works to buildings and (b) the potential merits of enabling (i) leaseholders and (ii) tenants to contact the Recovery Strategy Unit [directly?] in order to receive its support in those cases.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	186704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2023 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of local authorities and fire and rescue services to ensure that building owners are complying with their legal obligations to keep their buildings safe, and from April 2024 the Building Safety Regulator will enforce fire safety in buildings above 18 metres or seven storeys. Where building owners are stalling remediation progress, the Government expects regulators to take appropriate action. The Building Safety Act 2022 grants regulators additional enforcement powers in the form of remediation orders and remediation contribution orders, which allow them to apply to the First-tier Tribunal for an order requiring a building owner to fix, and pay to fix, their unsafe building.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 09/06/2023 09:27:09 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1599908

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
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: 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, (a) how many and (b) which developers who signed the Building Safety Pledge have signed the developer remediation contract as of 28 February 2023.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	155246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-questions%2Fdetail%2F2023-02-27%2F153893&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C917f87380cbf43b9952808db1bd8ec7d%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638134390707858707%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=R6Y3EKQ3mdOVwRpYEMt9qZRRAREAgSf4zO19ytlAtE0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank"> 153893</a> on 2 March 2023.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 03/03/2023 11:55:53 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1586794

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
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: 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, whether he has held discussions with (a) Scotfield and (b) Shephard Construction on signing the developers pledge on unsafe cladding.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	146806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>Last year, 49 of the largest developers signed a public pledge committing to fix life-critical fire-safety defects in residential buildings 11 metres and over in height which they developed or refurbished in England over the last 30 years. Scotfield and Shephard Construction are not signatories to the pledge</p><p><br> On 30 January 2023, the Government published the developer remediation contract, which sets out the detail of the commitments in the pledge and will be legally binding once signed, and a letter to developers asking them to sign the contract by 13 March. The letter was sent to developers who had signed the pledge and to several who have not signed it and stated that recipients who did not sign the contract by 13 March should expect this fact to be made public</p><p><br> In his statement of 30 January, the Secretary of State made clear that we intend to extend the Scheme in due course to an even larger group of developers who are associated with unsafe buildings 11 metres and over in height and who should be paying to fix them.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 22/02/2023 18:52:21 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1564589

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Buildings: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate his Department has made of number of (a) businesses and (b) individuals that are qualified to implement retrofitting measures in (i) homes and (ii) other buildings in England.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	117779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>For work carried out under Government schemes installers are required to be TrustMark registered. There are additional certifications required for energy efficiency measures (PAS - Publicly Available Specifications) and low carbon heating measures (MCS - Microgeneration Certification Scheme). In November 2022, there were 1782 TrustMark businesses across the UK which were certified to PAS or MCS standards.</p><p> </p><p>The Mace market intelligence report commissioned by BEIS last year outlined that in 2021 there were 154,748 individuals installing energy efficiency measures in England. Research undertaken last year by Eunomia indicates there are between 36,000 and 87,000 non-domestic retrofit businesses in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 12/01/2023 15:32:00 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart previous answer version 46082 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1535825

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
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: 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, what steps his Department is taking to encourage developers that have not yet signed the building safety repairs pledge to do so.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	71198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government expects all developers to do the right thing, irrespective of whether they have signed the building safety repairs pledge. We are in ongoing discussions with several developers who have not signed the pledge and will invite them to sign the finalised self-remediation contract.</p><p>We have made clear that developers who fail to do the right thing face significant commercial consequences. In August, we made commencement regulations that are an important step towards giving Ministers powers to stop developers who fail to do the right thing from commencing developments for which they have planning permission and from being granted building control sign-off.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/10/2022 14:14:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq