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1345300

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 additional funding is being provided to local authorities to maintain waking watch fire patrol services in buildings with unsafe cladding.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	29765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>Guidance published by the National Fire Chiefs Council recommends that a Waking Watch should only be in place for a short period of time in those buildings where the fire safety strategy has moved from 'stay put' to 'simultaneous evacuation'.</p><p>The guidance is clear that the Responsible Person should move quickly to install a common fire alarm system as they are a more cost effective and reliable option. On 17 December the Secretary of State announced a £30 million Waking Watch Relief fund to pay for the costs of installing a common fire alarm system in residential buildings in England taller than 18 meters with unsafe cladding, to remove costly Waking Watch measures.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 16/07/2021 13:45:47 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1345301

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 the annual cost was of waking watch fire patrols to each local authority in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	29766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2021 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 16/07/2021 10:31:59 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1343517

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Building Safety Bill, announced by the Housing Secretary on 5 July will assist leaseholders facing bills for non-cladding defects in high rise flats.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL1715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Building Safety Bill will ensure that those responsible for occupied higher-risk buildings will be required to actively manage building safety risks, evidencing this through the safety case regime overseen by the Building Safety Regulator. This will ensure major fire and structural hazards are effectively and proportionately managed, mitigated and remedied and that effective steps are taken, which take into account safety and cost.</p><p>The Bill contains measures to protect leaseholders by providing a legal requirement for building owners to explore alternative ways to meet the costs of remediation works before passing these onto leaseholders, along with evidence that this has been done.</p><p>We have been clear that building owners are responsible for ensuring the safety of their residents, that is why we are taking action to extend rights to redress where unacceptable defects have made a dwelling unfit to live in by making changes to the Defective Premises Act 1972. The changes we are making will enhance building owners’ ability to seek compensation for defective work carried out on their buildings.</p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 13/07/2021 14:22:18 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

1342517

registered interest
date	30/06/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 information his Department holds on the number of residential multi-occupied buildings (a) above 11 metres tall and (b) under 18 metres in height that have undergone an external wall survey in the last three years broken down into (i) private and (ii) social housing sectors.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	25184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>This information is not held. External wall surveys, in the form of EWS1 assessments, are an industry process and data on them is not collected by MHCLG.</p><p>The Department has published estimates regarding EWS1 requirements on residential buildings in England, which are available online here - <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fbuilding-safety-programme-estimates-of-ews1-requirements-on-residential-buildings-in-england%2Fbuilding-safety-programme-estimates-of-ews1-requirements-on-residential-buildings-in-england&amp;data=04%7C01%7CPSChristopherPincher%40communities.gov.uk%7Ce1c19b7f1999451bea6608d93f83578f%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637610655600469778%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=afWVcJ7SSnaLz4hZ9pt8QMF8GIO5YTa%2B5WZEyGdEkHM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-estimates-of-ews1-requirements-on-residential-buildings-in-england/building-safety-programme-estimates-of-ews1-requirements-on-residential-buildings-in-england</a></p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 05/07/2021 15:50:22 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1342518

registered interest
date	30/06/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 his Department will make an estimate of the proportion of external wall surveys conducted in the last three years on residential multi-occupied buildings in England above 11 metres tall which have resulted in a B2 fire safety rating.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	25185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>The EWS1 process is an industry one, as is the EWS1 form. The Department accordingly does not hold this data.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 05/07/2021 15:50:52 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1332298

registered interest
date	11/06/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 he plans to publish his response to the consultation, Fire safety: risk prioritisation in existing buildings, which closed on 17 February 2020.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	14163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2021 answer text <p>We are considering the information provided by respondents to the call for evidence, and will be publishing a response.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 16/06/2021 14:22:49 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1330014

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 is taking to help ensure that professional standards of (a) competence and (b) quality management are enforced in the sectors of (i) fire door installation, (ii) fire door manufacturing and (iii) fire-stopping in high rise buildings needing repairs.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	11675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2021 answer text <p>The Building Safety Bill will strengthen the regulatory framework for construction products, including fire doors, by creating powers to require construction products to be safe before they can be placed on the United Kingdom market, and creating a statutory list of 'safety critical' construction products. For products deemed to be 'safety critical', manufacturers will be required to declare the performance of these products to a specific standard and to put in place factory control processes to make sure they are consistently met. The Government is also establishing a national regulator in the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) to lead and co-ordinate enforcement, confront poor practice, remove unsafe products from the market, and deal with safety concerns early through improved market surveillance.</p><p>The industry-led Competence Steering Group has produced frameworks and recommendations to improve the competence of professionals working in safety-critical roles across the sector, including installers. The Government is supporting the Group's ongoing work by sponsoring the British Standards Institution to develop a suite of national competence standards, and intends through the Building Safety Bill to introduce regulations to ensure that those involved in design and construction are competent to do so.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 15/06/2021 16:41:56 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1328901

registered interest
date	27/05/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 his Department plans to publish research from the British Research Establishment on trigger height thresholds.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	8527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2021 answer text <p>The research is advancing and is currently scheduled to conclude at the end of 2021.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 11/06/2021 12:03:23 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

1314796

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 estimate he has made of the number of buildings outside London over 17.7 metres in height with (a) unsafe cladding and (b) other fire safety issues that have had waking watches put in place since 15 March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	1381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2021 answer text <p>The Department continues to work closely with the National Fire Chiefs Council to understand the extent to which waking watch measures are used in Residential Buildings. We do not hold specific information on the number of buildings over 17.7 metres in height which have had waking watches put in place since 15 March 2021.</p><p>The Government’s £30 million Waking Watch Relief Fund is designed to incentivise buildings to install a common alarm system and to reduce the dependency on waking watch measures. The Government funding does not remove responsibilities for fire safety from the responsible persons. We are keeping the operation of the Waking Watch Relief Fund under review.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 20/05/2021 15:12:15 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher previous answer version 1155 answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1313796

registered interest
date	12/05/2021
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 additional steps he plans to take to protect leaseholders from costs arising from (a) the misuse of flammable cladding and (b) other unsafe structural design features used in the (i) construction and (ii) modification of the apartment blocks containing their flats.
tabling member constituency	New Forest East
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
uin	583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>Longstanding independent safety advice has been clear that unsafe cladding poses the greatest risk to buildings, because it can act as a fuel to a fire. Our approach prioritises action on the risks of unsafe cladding – the costs for remediating this are high, and the risks posed by it are also high. The Government has announced a globally unprecedented investment in building safety and hundreds of thousands of leaseholders will be protected from the cost of remediating unsafe cladding on their homes. On 10 February the Government announced it will provide an additional £3.5 billion grant funding for remediation of unsafe cladding on buildings over 18 metres, which brings the total investment in building safety to an unprecedented £5.1 billion.</p><p>Lower-rise buildings between 11 and 18 metres, with a lower risk to safety, will gain protection from the costs of cladding remediation through a generous financing scheme. As part of this financing scheme, no leaseholder will pay more than £50 per month towards the cost of cladding remediation. This builds on steps already taken to support leaseholders, including the £30 million waking watch fund to help end excessive costs and new legislation in the Building Safety Bill which will ensure homes are made and kept safer in future. We will publish more details on how the schemes will work as soon as we are in a position to do so.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 17/05/2021 16:29:08 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis