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1489506

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2022
	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, with reference to the Developer pledge letter, published 13 April 2022, what steps he is taking to progress the implementation of the Developer pledge.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	uin	37561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>On 13 July we published the draft of a contract with developers. The draft contract, once finalised and executed, will turn the commitments made in the pledge into a legally binding agreement.</p><p>Publication marks the start of a four-week period of engagement, during which we will refine the contract as necessary. As well as discussing the contract with developers during this period, we will engage other interested parties including representatives of building owners, managing agents, residents, leaseholders, lenders and insurers.</p><p>We plan to have the terms of the contract finalised by 10 August. We expect developers to have signed the contract by the end of September.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 21/07/2022 16:00:43 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1488718

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2022
	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, what measures his Department will take to locate polluters under the first tier of the waterfall model of liability contained in the Building Safety Act 2022 before placing liability on other parties.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	uin	36017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>Under the Waterfall model set out in the Building Safety Act 2022, developers are the first to pay for the costs of remediating defective buildings, rather than the leaseholders that have previously been liable for costs</p><p><br> During the previous Secretary of State’s appearance before the Levelling up and Housing Committee on 13 June 2022, he announced that a new Recovery Strategy Unit has been established to help pursue and expose developers who have failed to pay for defects that they have created. <br> <br> The unit will identify and pursue these individuals and firms using all appropriate means, including through the courts, to ensure that developers do the right thing and take responsibility for defects they created.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 20/07/2022 15:38:35 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1488719

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2022
	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, if he will make an assessment on the financial impact on UK pension funds of the Building Safety Act 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	uin	36018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The Building Safety Act puts in place legal protections for leaseholders from historical building safety costs. The Act legally protects qualifying leaseholders (those living in their own home or with no more than three UK properties in total) from all costs relating to the remediation of unsafe cladding and contains robust and far-reaching protections from non-cladding costs, including those relating to interim measures such as waking watches. Where those directly responsible (for example, developers) cannot be held to account, building owners and landlords, rather than leaseholders, will now be the first port of call to pay for historical safety defects.</p><p>The Building Safety Act spreads the costs of fixing historical building safety defects as fairly and equitably as possible across the system. If building owners and landlords on 14 February were, or were related to the developer of the building, they are liable for the full cost of remediating all building safety defects, whether cladding or otherwise, to the benefit of all leaseholders. Qualifying leaseholders will be protected from all costs for remediation works if the building owners and landlord have a net worth of more than £2 million per in-scope building.</p><p>It is not our default expectation that building owners and landlords, including pension funds, will have to fund remediation works from their own resources: we want them to pursue those responsible for defective work, including associated companies of developers and manufacturers. That is why y there is now a toolkit of measures available under the Building Safety Act 2022 to enable that to happen.</p><p>We have retrospectively extended the limitation period under section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 from 6 to 30 years; we have extended the reach of civil liability to associated companies of developers, including trusts, to ensure that some of the largest businesses in the sector who have used shell companies and other complex corporate structures to be pursed for contributions; and we have created a cause of action which will allow manufacturers of construction products to be pursued where defective or mis-sold products have been used in buildings.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 21/07/2022 15:51:52 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1488720

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2022
	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, if he will consult (a) building owners, (b) managing agents and (c) residents of buildings on the delivery of the commitments pledged by developers for buildings those developers no longer own or control.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	uin	36019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>On 13 July we published the draft of a contract with developers. The draft contract, once finalised and executed, will turn the commitments made in the pledge into a legally binding agreement.</p><p>Publication marks the start of a four-week period of engagement, during which we will refine the contract as necessary. As well as discussing the contract with developers during this period, we will engage other interested parties including representatives of building owners, managing agents, residents, leaseholders, lenders and insurers.</p><p>We plan to have the terms of the contract finalised by 10 August. We expect developers to have signed the contract by the end of September.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 21/07/2022 15:50:04 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

693173

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to provide support to businesses in rural areas affected by increases in business rates.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	uin	65225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>A £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme will provide support to businesses, including those in rural areas, which face an increase in rates. My Department is working closely with the Treasury to determine how best to provide further support to businesses facing the steepest increases. We expect to be in a position to make an announcement on this at the Budget.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 02/03/2017 17:48:46 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

693176

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of the changes in business rates on businesses located in areas where there is population of (a) 10,000 or less and (b) 3,000 or less.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	uin	65204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>The effect of the revaluation of business rates on businesses in areas where there is population of 10,000 or less and 3,000 or less will depend on the specific circumstances and location of the relevant property. A £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme will provide support to properties which face an increase in rates. My Department is working closely with the Treasury to determine how best to provide further support to businesses facing the steepest increases. We expect to be in a position to make an announcement on this at the Budget.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 02/03/2017 16:48:58 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

693177

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the data included in the table produced for non-domestic rating: 2010 and 2017 revaluation rateable values by country, region and SCat code for business located in areas where the population is (a) 10,000 or less and (b) 3,000 or less.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	uin	65205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>The data held by the Valuation Office Agency is not broken down by population size, so it is not possible to produce the statistics requested on rateable values in areas where the population is (a) 10,000 or less and (b) 3,000 or less.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 07/03/2017 17:26:15 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake