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1728587

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
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, what steps her Department is taking to support residents of buildings with unsafe cladding.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	5131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to protecting qualifying leaseholders from the costs of fixing historic building safety defects that were not their fault.  Legislation has been introduced to ensure that qualifying leaseholders are both protected from costs and can pursue building owners and developers for contributions to fix these issues. Pathways are in place for all residential buildings over 11 meters in England to fix unsafe cladding through government funds, developer contributions, or registered providers of social housing.</p><p>Too many buildings still have unsafe cladding, and the pace of remediation has been too slow. Any building owner who fails to make their building safe faces enforcement action. The Code of Practice for the Remediation of Residential Buildings requires all remediation projects to treat residents as key stakeholder in the remediation process.</p><p>Government continues to put residents at the heart of the building safety agenda and conducts fortnightly building visits to engage residents to better understand their experiences and to support them.</p> answering member constituency Bethnal Green and Stepney answering member printed Rushanara Ali question first answered 18/09/2024 11:38:22 answering member 4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1728260

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
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 the Building Safety Fund will cover the cost for thermal performance improvements associated with fire safety measures for the external cladding of buildings, where those improvements are (a) required to meet building regulation energy efficiency standards or (b) go over and above building regulation energy efficiency standards.
tabling member constituency	Chelsea and Fulham
tabling member printed	Ben Coleman
uin	4828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The Building Safety Fund (BSF) was established to address life safety fire risks associated with cladding on high rise residential buildings. Remediation works must meet Building Regulations requirements, including minimum standards for energy efficiency. BSF applicants may choose to self-fund further energy efficiency measures.</p> answering member constituency Bethnal Green and Stepney answering member printed Rushanara Ali question first answered 17/09/2024 11:34:23 answering member 4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali
tabling member	5344

1728392

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
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, what information her Department holds on levels of prevalence of aluminium composite material cladding on buildings in Nuneaton constituency.
tabling member constituency	Nuneaton
tabling member printed	Jodie Gosling
uin	4960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2024 answer text <p>There are no buildings in the Nuneaton constituency that have been identified with unsafe cladding.</p> answering member constituency Bethnal Green and Stepney answering member printed Rushanara Ali question first answered 12/09/2024 15:25:32 answering member 4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali
tabling member	5036

1717717

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
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 guidance his Department has issued for cladding remediation in Conservation Areas.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	25928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for conservation areas. The Manual to the Building Regulations notes that where the functional requirement of Part B Fire Safety applies to buildings of special architectural or historic interest, local authority building control and conservation officers may be able to advise on how to comply appropriately, if guidance intended for common building situations might prove too restrictive.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 21/05/2024 13:23:05 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1717727

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an estimate of the number of buildings in which insulation was installed through government-funded grant schemes in which remediation of that insulation is required.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	25934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government does not hold the data on the number of buildings where insulation has been installed through a government funded scheme and subsequently required remediation work.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2019, all installations under government energy efficiency schemes have been required to be carried out by TrustMark registered and PAS 2030 or MCS certified businesses to improve the quality of installations and protect consumers. TrustMark registered installers are required to provide all consumers with a guarantee covering the installation work for up to 25 years for a range of energy efficiency measures.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 21/05/2024 15:11:03 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1685329

registered interest
date	26/01/2024
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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending rights to access (a) Remediation Contribution Orders through the First-tier Tribunal and (b) other lower-cost legal action to buildings under 11 metres where leaseholders need to pursue legal action to recover cladding remediation costs.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	11595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>It is generally accepted that the life safety risk is proportional to the height of buildings.   The risk to life from historical fire safety defects is lower in buildings under 11m, therefore building safety related remediation works are required in a very small number of buildings under 11m.</p><p>In rare cases where remediation work is required in buildings under 11 metres, the government has retrospectively extended the limitation period under Section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 enabling legal action against developers and contractors where works completed in the last 30 years made a dwelling not “fit for habitation”.</p><p>We would welcome examples of any specific cases under 11m where there are concerns to be raised with the Department for further review.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 31/01/2024 12:59:27 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

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

1665112

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
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 enable leaseholders in properties where there are substantive non-cladding fire safety risks and no recourse to the Building Safety Fund to challenge freeholders who fail to provide evidence of costs.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	202805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>Guidance relating to leaseholder protections, including further information on landlord certificates and leaseholder deed of certificates, can be found <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fbuilding-safety-leaseholder-protections-guidance-for-leaseholders&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cbd738b558c6641beec5208dbd0b5f09d%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638333252056373550%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=n0SoDENlGnnNf7p47zBUbgX41M6YU4Na8Mu00wiDMuo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">here</a></p><p><br> Where leaseholders consider the landlord is breaching the terms of the lease or is in breach of the Building Safety Act 2022, they can take legal action against them. Legal action may include an application to the First-tier Tribunal. They can also apply to the Tribunal for an order requiring the landlord to remediate the building. Advice on such steps is available free of charge from bodies such as the Leasehold Advisory Service or Citizens Advice.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 19/10/2023 15:31:27 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy