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1701521

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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, what criteria his Department plans to use to assess the effectiveness of the Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility; and over what timeframe he plans to use these criteria.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	22126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Gentleman to the answer given to Question UIN <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-03-18/19172" target="_blank">19172</a> on 22 March 2024.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 24/04/2024 14:46:46 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1701522

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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 the research entitled EWS1 or equivalent lender data on mortgage valuations for flats: October 2023 to December 2023, published by his Department on 21 March 2024, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the proportion of mortgage valuations on high rise flats that required an EWS1 form or equivalent in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	22127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The EWS1 form is not a Government process, and we do not support its use in the mortgage process.</p><p>To aid transparency, the department does provide data during the process so that people can see how the use of EWS1 forms has changed over time.</p><p>We continue to press the industry to accept other forms of assurance other than EWS1s, such as a comprehensive fire risk assessment including the external wall systems, which building owners are mandated to carry out, under the Fire Safety Act 2021.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 22128 question first answered 25/04/2024 13:01:25 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1701528

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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, what discussions his Department has had with manufacturers of (a) cladding and (b) insulation on financial contributions to building safety remediation works.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	22131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>In early 2022 the Secretary of State opened industry wide discussions with cladding and insulation manufacturers. To date, no cladding or insulation manufacturer has come forward with a financial contribution for their part in this. We are continuing to press the industry on this issue.</p><p>The department’s Recovery Strategy Unit continues to actively pursue organisations, including manufacturers, responsible for unsafe buildings to force them to contribute to the costs of remediation.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 24/04/2024 14:52:51 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1701529

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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 the oral contribution of 26 March 2024 by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety, Official Report, column 1415, whether remediation contribution orders taken out by his Department will (a) recover and (b) reimburse funds paid by leaseholders.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	22132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The department has applied for remediation contribution orders relating to building safety works against three companies, specifically:</p><ul><li>£20.5 million from Yianis Group for Canary Riverside</li><li>£46 million from Urban Splash for seven buildings in Manchester. These are: The Box Works, Burton Place, Chips Building, Christabel, Emmeline, Sylvia and Moho Building, all in Manchester</li><li>£3.4 million from Hollybrook for one building in London</li></ul><p>The aim of these orders is to recoup as much of the costs related to building remediation as possible, regardless of the organisation or individual who made the original payment. This could include, for example, the cost of waking watch, replacement of balconies or associated enabling works. <br> <br> Where costs are recovered through the First Tier Tribunal decision, be they all or part of those requested, the intention is they are refunded to whichever organisation or individual paid for them, whether taxpayer, leaseholder or otherwise. The action also aims to prevent leaseholders from having to pay costs for works not yet completed, including where leaseholders are non-qualifying.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 24/04/2024 14:54:11 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1701530

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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 the oral contribution of 26 March 2024 by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety, Official Report, column 1414, whether his Department plans to publish a list of building owners who continue to hold up remediation.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	22133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>We track the progress of buildings and make this publicly available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-february-2024/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-february-2024#acm-remediation" target="_blank">Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release - February 2024 - GOV.UK</a>.</p><p>We have also made public the corporate entities responsible for the remaining buildings with the most dangerous cladding that have yet to start on site at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/aluminium-composite-material-cladding#corporate-entities-yet-to-start-remediation-works-on-site" target="_blank">Aluminium composite material cladding - GOV.UK </a>, and update this list periodically.</p><p>It is important that building owners fulfil their building safety responsibilities and where they do not that they are held to account. As I reiterated to the house on 26th March, and in a joint statement with building safety bodies, 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.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 22134 question first answered 24/04/2024 14:55:56 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1701531

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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 the oral contribution of 26 March 2024 by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety, Official Report, column 1414, how many building owners his Department has identified in the reducing core of building owners who continue to hold up remediation; and how many buildings such owners own.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	22134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>We track the progress of buildings and make this publicly available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-february-2024/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-february-2024#acm-remediation" target="_blank">Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release - February 2024 - GOV.UK</a>.</p><p>We have also made public the corporate entities responsible for the remaining buildings with the most dangerous cladding that have yet to start on site at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/aluminium-composite-material-cladding#corporate-entities-yet-to-start-remediation-works-on-site" target="_blank">Aluminium composite material cladding - GOV.UK </a>, and update this list periodically.</p><p>It is important that building owners fulfil their building safety responsibilities and where they do not that they are held to account. As I reiterated to the house on 26th March, and in a joint statement with building safety bodies, 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.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 22133 question first answered 24/04/2024 14:55:56 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1701107

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of publishing guidance for leaseholders on how they can access the dispute resolution process under the Developer Self Remediation Terms.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>If a dispute arises and leaseholders are unable to make contact with their developer, they should follow the published guidance in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/developer-remediation-contract-resident-factsheet" target="_blank">Developer remediation contract: resident factsheet - GOV.UK</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21815 question first answered 23/04/2024 12:45:18 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1701108

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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, what criteria a company must meet in order to be included on the Homes England Fire Risk Assessor Panel and authorised to carry out FRAEWs for buildings in the Cladding Safety Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>To join the Fire Risk Assessor Panel firms must sign a participation agreement which sets out the terms for the panel and eligibility criteria. Along with agreeing to follow Homes England processes set out in the scheme guidance and use the correct scheme documents, firms must have:</p><ul><li>Relevant professional qualification to undertake fire risk appraisals as per PAS 9980 guidance</li><li>Access to chartered engineers to perform complex assessments when needed</li><li>ISO 9001 approach to quality control</li><li>Professional Indemnity Insurance</li></ul><p>Membership is renewed annually with firms having to provide evidence of their PII insurance and self-certification of qualifications and experience of firm assessors. The use of PAS 9980 and proportionality is assured by sample audit.</p><p>Since the scheme went live, four firms have left the panel through their own accord. Two pulled out due to resourcing issues and their inability to commit to meeting service level agreements and two others left due to them not receiving any business from being on the panel.</p><p>To date, Homes England have not had to remove any firms due to performance however Homes England can exercise this option should they need to.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21811 question first answered 23/04/2024 12:54:58 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1701109

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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, whether any companies have been removed from the Homes England Fire Risk Assessor Panel for the Cladding Safety Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>To join the Fire Risk Assessor Panel firms must sign a participation agreement which sets out the terms for the panel and eligibility criteria. Along with agreeing to follow Homes England processes set out in the scheme guidance and use the correct scheme documents, firms must have:</p><ul><li>Relevant professional qualification to undertake fire risk appraisals as per PAS 9980 guidance</li><li>Access to chartered engineers to perform complex assessments when needed</li><li>ISO 9001 approach to quality control</li><li>Professional Indemnity Insurance</li></ul><p>Membership is renewed annually with firms having to provide evidence of their PII insurance and self-certification of qualifications and experience of firm assessors. The use of PAS 9980 and proportionality is assured by sample audit.</p><p>Since the scheme went live, four firms have left the panel through their own accord. Two pulled out due to resourcing issues and their inability to commit to meeting service level agreements and two others left due to them not receiving any business from being on the panel.</p><p>To date, Homes England have not had to remove any firms due to performance however Homes England can exercise this option should they need to.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21810 question first answered 23/04/2024 12:54:58 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1700446

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that risk assessors commissioned by participant developers in the self-remediation scheme are (a) independent and (b) not reliant on one developer for their entire income.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	21333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The developer remediation contract requires that relevant assessors are suitably experienced, qualified, independent and competent. The department also requires the developer and the assessor to sign statements confirming that they are separate financial entities, in line with guidance issued by authorities including RICS, the International Arbitration Board, the International Bar Association and ISO/IEC 17020:2012 Conformity assessment.</p><p>The department does not recommend a list of assessors to developers. The British Standards Institution’s PAS 9980 standard and the developer remediation contract make clear that relevant assessors must meet the required standard, and the department regularly commissions independent audits of assessments obtained by developers to make sure that those standards have been met.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 21334 question first answered 22/04/2024 14:01:15 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury