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1568757

registered interest
date	19/01/2023
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: 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, whether he is taking steps to protect leaseholders from remediation costs related to structural building defects that are not considered a "relevant defect" under the Building Safety Act, but which are discovered during cladding remediation works.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	127916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2023 answer text <p>The Building Safety Act 2022 sets out the broad range of defects to which the leaseholder protections apply. The core principle is that the historical defect puts people's safety at risk from the spread of fire, or structural collapse.</p><p>The Building Safety Act 2022 also provides a toolkit of measures to enable those responsible for defective work to be pursued. These include retrospectively extending the limitation period under section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 from six to 30 years where claims can be made for defective work relating to the construction of dwellings where the work rendered the dwelling unfit for habitation at the time of completion</p><p><br>Additionally, civil claims can now be brought against manufacturers of, or those who have supplied, defective or mis-sold construction products, or those who have supplied or marketed in breach of regulations, where these products have been incorporated in a dwelling and that has caused or contributed to a dwelling being unfit for habitation.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 24/01/2023 13:24:12 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1541470

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
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: 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 provisions there are within the Building Safety Act 2022 to hold cladding remediation companies who installed defective and unsafe cladding to account.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	85024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>We have brought forward an ambitious toolkit of measures under the Building Safety Act 2022, which enables those responsible for defective work to be pursued. Civil claims can now be brought against manufacturers of, or those who have supplied, defective or mis-sold construction products, or those who have supplied or marketed in breach of regulations, where these products have been incorporated in a dwelling and that has caused or contributed to a dwelling being unfit for habitation. This provision, which applies to all dwellings, has retrospective effect for cladding products with a limitation period of 30 years and prospective effect for all construction products with a limitation period of 15 years.</p><p>The Act retrospectively extends the limitation period under section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 from six to 30 years and extends the reach of civil liability to associated companies of developers, including trusts, to ensure that those businesses in the sector who have used shell companies and other complex corporate structures can be pursued for contributions towards the remediation of historical safety defects. These provisions will help to ensure that all parties that play a part in creating building safety defects are in line for costs to rectify them.</p><p>The Act gives the Secretary of State the power to establish a statutory scheme to distinguish between industry actors that have committed to take responsibility for making buildings safe, including by remedying defective buildings, and those that fail to do so. The Act also gives the Secretary of State powers to prevent those that have failed to take responsibility from carrying out development for which planning permission has been granted, and to prevent them from receiving building control approval on their developments. This means that those that take responsibility and do the right thing can continue to go about their business freely and with confidence, while those that don't may suffer commercial and reputational consequences.</p><p>Additionally, anti-avoidance and enforcement provisions - including remediation orders and remediation contributions orders - are included in the Act to ensure that those who are liable to pay under leaseholder protections actually do so. Relevant authorities now have the power to compel responsible entities to fund and undertake the necessary remediation work. Where firms are repeatedly refusing to pay to fix these buildings, the government's new Recovery Strategy Unit will pursue these firms, working closely with other enforcement authorities.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 16/11/2022 17:08:21 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1346420

registered interest
date	13/07/2021
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	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated to buildings for cladding remediation through the Building Safety Fund, as of 13 July 2021.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	32532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2021 answer text <p>Data on the Building Safety Fund, including the number of applications and how much funding has been allocated, are published and updated monthly at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fremediation-of-non-acm-buildings%23building-safety-fund-registration-statistics&amp;data=04%7C01%7CPSChristopherPincher%40communities.gov.uk%7Ce01e883b86d4468c301c08d94a895978%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637622776027334802%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=%2FGyoZ%2B5jQDMUy9HtPklmnG%2B%2BKkrVzumiKTJTacN4%2Fxc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings#building-safety-fund-registration-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 32531 question first answered 20/07/2021 16:39:15 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher previous answer version 15252 answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1300901

registered interest
date	09/03/2021
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	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether buildings under 11 metres high with cladding require an External Wall Survey (EWS) assessment.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	165687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2021 answer text <p>On 8 March the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) published a new guidance note which outlines when an EWS1 form should be used, which is available at <a href="http://www.rics.org/uk/upholding-professional-standards/sector-standards/valuation/valuation-of-properties-in-multi-storey-multi-occupancy-residential-buildings-with-cladding/" target="_blank">www.rics.org/uk/upholding-professional-standards/sector-standards/valuation/valuation-of-properties-in-multi-storey-multi-occupancy-residential-buildings-with-cladding/</a> . The EWS1 process is not a Government form or regulatory requirement, and when and whether the process is used will be determined by the policies of individual mortgage and valuation firms.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 12/03/2021 12:18:31 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1178410

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
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	Buildings: Insulation
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 he will extend the scope of the unsafe cladding fund to include all buildings with cladding that do not meet the requirements needed to issue a fire safety certificate.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	2045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government has committed £600 million for the removal and replacement of unsafe ACM cladding on high-rise residential buildings. Government intervention is wholly exceptional, and is based on the unparalleled fire risk ACM poses. We are aware of concerns leaseholders have about meeting the cost of remediation of fire safety issues other than ACM cladding remediation on high-rise buildings. Building safety is the responsibility of the building owner, and they should consider all routes to meet costs, protecting leaseholders where they can – for example through warranties and recovering costs from contractors for incorrect or poor work.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 2060 question first answered 24/02/2020 17:53:47 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson