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1685119

registered interest
date	25/01/2024
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	Housing: Construction
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 assessment of the adequacy of home warranty policies in covering the costs of building structural faults.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	11533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>A new build warranty is issued to protect homeowners from the cost of fixing structural defects caused by faulty materials or poor workmanship during construction. Providers structure warranties acceptable to the circumstances, and it is for developers to determine whether to sell warranties or not. Mortgage providers require new build homes to be sold with a warranty for the buyer to secure a mortgage so in practice most new build homes will be sold with some form of warranty purchased by the developer with the home buyer the beneficiary of the policy. Through the Building Safety Act 2022, the Government has created a power that will allow the Secretary of State to set minimum standards for all new build warranties and penalties for those not complying. The Government is working with the sector to take these changes forward, and will provide more detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 11534 question first answered 08/02/2024 12:12:01 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1685140

registered interest
date	25/01/2024
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	Housing: Construction
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 assessment of the adequacy of the regulatory framework for home warranty policies covering the costs of building structural faults.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	11534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>A new build warranty is issued to protect homeowners from the cost of fixing structural defects caused by faulty materials or poor workmanship during construction. Providers structure warranties acceptable to the circumstances, and it is for developers to determine whether to sell warranties or not. Mortgage providers require new build homes to be sold with a warranty for the buyer to secure a mortgage so in practice most new build homes will be sold with some form of warranty purchased by the developer with the home buyer the beneficiary of the policy. Through the Building Safety Act 2022, the Government has created a power that will allow the Secretary of State to set minimum standards for all new build warranties and penalties for those not complying. The Government is working with the sector to take these changes forward, and will provide more detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 11533 question first answered 08/02/2024 12:12:01 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1685144

registered interest
date	25/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Grenfell Tower Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Progress against the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations, published on 29 June 2023, if he will publish an updated report.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	11535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government publishes a detailed bi-annual progress tracker on implementation of the Phase 1 recommendations. The next iteration is due to be published shortly.</p><p>The tracker can be found on the gov.uk website under Grenfell Progress Tracker. The June 2023 tracker reported the following overall completion rates:</p><ul><li>31 of the 46 recommendations completed overall.</li><li>10 out of 15 recommendations for Government (more detail on the five outstanding recommendations, which relate to evacuation, is set out below).</li><li>13 out of the 14 for LFB only.</li><li>1 out of the 9 for all FRSs. FRSs have, however, reported to the NFCC completion of 91% of their actions on average, but national recommendations cannot be signed off as complete until all 44 services have completed all actions in full.</li></ul><p>7 out of 8 for other bodies including other emergency services.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/01/2024 15:21:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1684857

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
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: 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 his Department's data release entitled Estimating the prevalence and costs of external wall system life-safety fire risk in mid-rise residential buildings in England, published on 17 May 2022, how many buildings estimated to require work to alleviate external wall system life-safety fire risks will be remediated through the Cladding Safety Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	11423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>The end use of the Cladding Safety Scheme will depend upon individual decisions made by responsible entities on a building by building basis. Freeholders are responsible for building safety in their own buildings, including the use of the Cladding Safety Scheme, and there are strong safeguards and enforcements in place should they fail to do so in good time. Where buildings require cladding remediation and lack other avenues to support that outcome, we strongly encourage applications to the Cladding Safety Scheme, and are pro-actively working to ensure applications are made.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 01/02/2024 17:37:28 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1684920

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
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: 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 paragraph 45 of the Government response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on Cladding: Progress of Remediation, CP 281, published on 3 September 2020, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking into direct ownership the freehold of a building for which access to (a) assess and (b) provide remediation is being prevented.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	11424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>Building owners are responsible for remediating unsafe buildings and the government has made extensive funding available for them to do so. It is important that building owners fulfil their building safety responsibilities and where they do not that they are held to account. Where building owners are stalling, they can expect to be subject to enforcement action by a local authority, fire and rescue service or the Building Safety Regulator; we released a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/joint-statement-on-enforcing-the-remediation-of-fire-safety-defects" target="_blank">joint statement</a> with key building safety bodies committing to this last year. Regulators have an extensive set of powers which allow them to compel building owners to assess and remediate their buildings.</p><p>The Fire Safety Act 2021 and Building Safety Act 2022 strengthen enforcement tools for regulators, including introducing remediation orders which are issued by the First-tier Tribunal. These boost regulators’ existing powers under the Housing Act 2004 and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Building owners who fail to comply with enforcement action can be subject to criminal penalties. The government has provided over £8 million in funding to local authorities to expand their enforcement teams.</p><p>We also fund the Joint Inspection Team (JIT), a multidisciplinary team of experts which supports local authorities with inspections and enforcement; the JIT currently supports over a third of all local authority high-rise building safety inspections in England.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 30/01/2024 16:46:23 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1684923

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
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	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, if he will publish for each developer in the self-remediation scheme the target date by which they have undertaken to complete the remediation of relevant buildings.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	11425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>Developers who have signed the developer remediation contract are obliged to send regular progress reports to the Department, and we publish developer performance data every quarter. The latest information is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-november-2023/developer-remediation-contract-data-release-november-2023#remediation-status&amp;data" target="_blank">Developer Remediation Contract data release: November 2023 - GOV.UK </a>. As the dataset matures, we will look at ways to enhance the quarterly report.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 30/01/2024 16:43:20 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1684924

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing maximum student loan amounts in line with inflation.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	11426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The department has frozen maximum tuition fees for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years to deliver better value for students, and to keep the cost of higher education (HE) under control. By 2024/25, maximum fees will have been frozen for seven years.</p><p>The government recognises the additional cost-of-living pressures that have arisen this year and that are impacting students. The department has therefore already made £276 million of student premium and mental health funding available for the 2023/24 academic year to support successful outcomes for students, including disadvantaged students.</p><p>The government has increased loans for living costs each year for students in England, with a 2.8% increase for the current 2023/24 academic year, and a further 2.5% increase announced for the 2024/25 academic year. Decisions on student finance have had to be taken to ensure the system remains financially sustainable and the costs of HE are shared fairly between students and taxpayers, not all of whom have benefited from going to university.</p><p>Students awarded a loan for living costs for the 2023/24 academic year that is lower than the maximum, and whose household income has dropped by at least 15% compared to the income provided for their original assessment can apply for their entitlement to be reassessed.</p><p>The department is now making a further £10 million of one-off support available to support student mental health and hardship funding. This funding will complement the help universities are providing through their own bursary, scholarship and hardship support schemes.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 31/01/2024 12:29:33 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1684189

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Scoliosis: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing the Adams Bend test in schools.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	10901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>In 2015, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) considered the Adams Bend test and concluded it has a high false positive rate and a low positive predictive value for identifying cases that are likely to progress and require treatment, therefore the use of this screening test would lead to unnecessary and potentially harmful exposure to X-rays. The UK NSC reconsidered the evidence in 2021 and does not currently recommend the introduction of a screening programme for scoliosis using the Adams Bend test.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 29/01/2024 16:12:37 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1684190

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
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: 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 support residents of buildings with unsafe cladding.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	10902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>All residential buildings above 11 metres in England now have a pathway to fix unsafe cladding, through either a taxpayer-funded scheme or developer-funded scheme; the Government has committed £5.1 billion to remove unsafe cladding from buildings. Five remediation schemes are underway:</p><ul><li>the ACM Cladding Remediation fund: open since 2018 and covers buildings with the most dangerous type of cladding like that on Grenfell;</li><li>the Building Safety Fund: first opened in 2020 for buildings over 18 metres with other forms of unsafe cladding;</li><li>the Cladding Safety Scheme: which was fully opened in July 2023 for buildings between 11 and 18 metres and is also open to new applications for 18m+ buildings outside of London;</li><li>developers have now assumed direct responsibility for remediating all life-critical fire safety defects in more than 1,000 buildings, and;</li><li>social housing providers are working to remediate buildings in their portfolios that require remediation.</li></ul><p>Residents must be at the heart of building safety. This includes the significant and disruptive works required to remediate buildings, with those responsible for the project and works considering residents as a key stakeholder throughout. To that end on 27 July 2023, we published the Code of Practice for the Remediation of Residential Buildings which sets our expectations for all remediation projects. The Code places residents at the heart of remediations projects as the key stakeholder and sets the standard for how we expect all remediation projects to account and deliver for residents.</p><p>As of 31 December 2023, 950 buildings residential buildings over 18 metres in height in England have been deemed eligible for the Building Safety Fund due to the presence of unsafe non-ACM cladding. Of these, 486 (51%) have started or completed remediation and of those 231 (24%) have completed works.</p><p>The then Minister for Housing last met with the FCA on 11 October 2023 and the Secretary of State met the Association of British Insurers on 13 December 2023. We continue to press the insurance industry to launch their scheme, which leaseholders need urgently. The Association of British Insurers released a public update on the scheme on their blog on 19 December 2023.</p><p>In the last 6 months, both the Secretary of State and I have met with the FCA (on 11 October 2023) and the Association of British Insurers (on 18 August 2023, 27 November 2023 and 12 December 2023). The Secretary of State met the Association of British Insurers on 13 December 2023. We continue to press the insurance industry to launch their scheme, which leaseholders need urgently.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 10903 10904 question first answered 30/01/2024 16:41:11 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1684191

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
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 recent discussions he has had with the (a) Financial Conduct Authority and (b) Association of British Insurers on (i) the insurance pooling scheme for building safety and (ii) when the details of the scheme will be published.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	10903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>All residential buildings above 11 metres in England now have a pathway to fix unsafe cladding, through either a taxpayer-funded scheme or developer-funded scheme; the Government has committed £5.1 billion to remove unsafe cladding from buildings. Five remediation schemes are underway:</p><ul><li>the ACM Cladding Remediation fund: open since 2018 and covers buildings with the most dangerous type of cladding like that on Grenfell;</li><li>the Building Safety Fund: first opened in 2020 for buildings over 18 metres with other forms of unsafe cladding;</li><li>the Cladding Safety Scheme: which was fully opened in July 2023 for buildings between 11 and 18 metres and is also open to new applications for 18m+ buildings outside of London;</li><li>developers have now assumed direct responsibility for remediating all life-critical fire safety defects in more than 1,000 buildings, and;</li><li>social housing providers are working to remediate buildings in their portfolios that require remediation.</li></ul><p>Residents must be at the heart of building safety. This includes the significant and disruptive works required to remediate buildings, with those responsible for the project and works considering residents as a key stakeholder throughout. To that end on 27 July 2023, we published the Code of Practice for the Remediation of Residential Buildings which sets our expectations for all remediation projects. The Code places residents at the heart of remediations projects as the key stakeholder and sets the standard for how we expect all remediation projects to account and deliver for residents.</p><p>As of 31 December 2023, 950 buildings residential buildings over 18 metres in height in England have been deemed eligible for the Building Safety Fund due to the presence of unsafe non-ACM cladding. Of these, 486 (51%) have started or completed remediation and of those 231 (24%) have completed works.</p><p>The then Minister for Housing last met with the FCA on 11 October 2023 and the Secretary of State met the Association of British Insurers on 13 December 2023. We continue to press the insurance industry to launch their scheme, which leaseholders need urgently. The Association of British Insurers released a public update on the scheme on their blog on 19 December 2023.</p><p>In the last 6 months, both the Secretary of State and I have met with the FCA (on 11 October 2023) and the Association of British Insurers (on 18 August 2023, 27 November 2023 and 12 December 2023). The Secretary of State met the Association of British Insurers on 13 December 2023. We continue to press the insurance industry to launch their scheme, which leaseholders need urgently.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 10902 10904 question first answered 30/01/2024 16:41:11 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury