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1173866

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	Social Rented Housing: 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, how many regulatory judgements were issued by the Regulator of Social Housing in relation to fire safety concerns since June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	8953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2020 answer text <p>The Regulator of Social Housing sets standards that registered providers are required to meet - including that a landlord meets all applicable statutory requirements that provide for the health and safety of the occupants of their homes. Failure to comply with a standard may result in the regulator publishing a Regulatory Judgement or a Regulatory Notice depending on the nature of the failing.</p><p>In relation to fire safety, there was one Regulatory Notice against a housing association in 2017/18. There were five Regulatory Notices in 2018/19 (four housing associations and a local authority)</p><p><br>From 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 there were 13 Regulatory Notices issued in total (six housing associations and seven local authorities). In addition, there were 2 Regulatory judgements issued due to health and safety concerns, including fire safety. <br> <br>From 1 April 2020 to date, no Regulatory Notices have been issued relating to fire safety.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 03/06/2020 15:42:07 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1173927

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	High Rise Flats: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure owners and managers of high-rise residential buildings introduce measures to support residents whose ability to self-evacuate may be compromised.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	9051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office will introduce a Fire Safety Bill in early 2020 which will put beyond doubt that owners or managers of multi-occupied residential buildings need to fully consider and mitigate the risks of external wall systems and front doors to individual flats.</p><p>The Fire Safety Bill will create a firm foundation to enable the Government to lay regulations to deliver the legislative recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report, including in relation to personal evacuation plans for residents whose ability to evacuate may be compromised. A consultation on the Grenfell Tower Phase 1 legislative recommendations is planned for spring 2020.</p><p>In addition, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has committed to bringing forward a Building Safety Bill. In our consultation, <em>Building a Safer Future: proposals for reform of the building safety regulatory system</em>, we set out proposals to create an enhanced safety framework for high-rise residential buildings. This included proposals for residents of buildings in scope of this new regime to receive key safety information about their building, which would include details about how to notify their ‘building safety manager’ if their ability to evacuate may be compromised. We will publish the response to our consultation shortly and will introduce legislation at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/02/2020 17:38:09 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1176742

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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, what information his Department holds on leaseholders who have been forced to declare bankruptcy because of inability to pay combustible building cladding remediation costs.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	13487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. The Government has committed £200 million for the removal and replacement of unsafe ACM cladding on private sector residential high-rise buildings.</p><p>We are aware of concerns leaseholders have about meeting the cost of remediation of fire safety issues other than ACM cladding remediation. Building safety is the responsibility of the building owner, and they should consider all routes to meet costs, to protect leaseholders – for example through warranties and recovering costs from contractors for incorrect or poor work. However, we do not want the cost to be a barrier to remediation, so the Department is considering options to support leaseholders with Her Majesty’s Treasury.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/02/2020 17:41:34 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher previous answer version 6390 answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1176756

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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: 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 assessment he has made of the effect of remedial fire safety works other than the replacement of ACM cladding on the ability of Housing Associations to develop new affordable housing.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	13491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department is helping landlords refine the estimates of the costs associated with ensuring their buildings are safe. As part of that we continue to engage with landlords, including housing associations, to understand their capacity to deliver these safety improvements. We are aware of the impact these costs might have on housing associations' other plans, but landlords also have an obligation to ensure their buildings are safe. Action has been taken to address buildings with the greatest safety risks associated with ACM cladding and supported funding for the remediation of 140 buildings in the social housing sector through the government’s social sector ACM cladding remediation fund.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/02/2020 17:38:43 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher previous answer version 6391 answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1176814

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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	Ground Rent
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 plans his department has to publish a response to the Law Commission report on leasehold enfranchisement with reference to ground rent.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	13513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is looking to standardise the enfranchisement process and asked the Law Commission to review current arrangements to make them easier, faster, fairer and cheaper. The Law Commission has now published its first report to Government, on the valuation aspects of enfranchisement. The report, which follows a consultation by the Law Commission, sets out a number of options relating to valuation, including purchasing a freehold and extending the lease of a house or flat. We expect the Law Commission will report on the remaining aspects of enfranchisement later in the spring.  The Government will carefully consider the proposals outlined in the Law Commission’s report and set out its preferred way forward in due course.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 14/02/2020 14:38:26 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

1176876

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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	Leasehold: Reform
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 timeframe is for bringing forward legislation on leasehold reform.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	13416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is taking forward a comprehensive programme of reform to end unfair practices in the leasehold market. This includes working with the Law Commission to make buying a freehold or extending a lease easier, quicker and more cost effective – and to reinvigorate Commonhold and Right to Manage. We are moving forward with legislation, particularly on measures to ban the sale of new leasehold houses, restrict ground rents to zero for future leases, give freehold homeowners equivalent rights to challenge unfair charges, and close loopholes to prevent unfair evictions and will introduce a bill when parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 14/02/2020 14:37:17 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1176880

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2020 to Question 5442 on Buildings: Fire Prevention, whether his Department has published all large-scale test reports and data that it has commissioned the Building Research Establishment to undertake.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	13522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2020 answer text <p>We have published all reports from BRE on the results and data from the large scale BS 8414 tests undertaken by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 14/02/2020 14:39:34 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1176881

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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	High Rise Flats: 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 his Department is taking to ensure that insulation concealed behind render in External Wall Insulation systems is correctly identified in the audit of high-rise buildings.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	13523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities have been asked to undertake a data collection exercise on residential buildings 18 metres and over in height to identify their external wall systems – including their external facing materials and their insulation<em>. </em> The responsibility for collecting and providing information for the data collection lies with local authorities and housing associations. Local authorities have powers under Section 235 of the Housing Act 2004 to require building owners to provide documentation. This may be used to require information on the external wall system of a building, which includes insulation. New burdens funding has been provided to local authorities to offer support for the completion of the External Wall Systems data collection.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 27/02/2020 16:45:37 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1176882

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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: 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 he will publish the names of the members of the Independent Expert Advisory Panel.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	13524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2020 answer text <p>Information on the Independent Advisory Panel including core membership can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fbuilding-safety-independent-expert-advisory-panel&amp;data=02%7C01%7CPratul.Pal%40communities.gov.uk%7C50cb1e55b6c94470113508d7ae1fd846%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637169324107467351&amp;sdata=5PrjP%2BIezmvetlVffJkfVFMpM2gvzGbXElCzlS9MSrM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/building-safety-independent-expert-advisory-panel</a> .</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 14/02/2020 14:38:51 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1176883

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
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	Care Homes and Sheltered Housing: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2020, to Question 3225 on Care Homes: Insulation, when his Department plans to issue a formal consultation on banning combustible materials on care homes and sheltered housing below 11 metres in height.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	13525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department is seeking views on the ban of the use of combustible materials in and on external walls of buildings, including building types covered and the height threshold. The consultation closes 13 April 2020 and is available at :</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fconsultations%2Freview-of-the-ban-on-the-use-of-combustible-materials-in-and-on-the-external-walls-of-buildings&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCharles-Elie.Romeyer%40communities.gov.uk%7C03c8f42550454b797cce08d7af129c5a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637170366775298913&amp;sdata=fpkZWCUAH9lvrLP2M1MC9CPhn2S0iH%2FhCDeLvfokwrA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/review-of-the-ban-on-the-use-of-combustible-materials-in-and-on-the-external-walls-of-buildings</a></p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 14/02/2020 14:39:18 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed