Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Christopher Pincher and John Lamont

Monday 11th January 2021 Commons Chamber

[Christopher Pincher]

I am obliged to the hon. Lady for her question. In our response to this challenge, we have been guided by Dame Judith Hackitt, who advised that we should focus our attention specifically on buildings that are over 18 metres, and that is what we have done. We believe that the £30 million that we have made available will go a long way to helping with the waking watch challenges of many of those buildings. It still remains the responsibility of developers and owners to make safe the buildings that they own or are responsible for and to resolve the defects in them. That is the point I have made from this Dispatch Box before and which I make again today, and it is the point that the building safety Bill will help to remedy.

[John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) (Con)]

What steps he is taking to deliver more powers to local government bodies.