Building Safety Defects

Earl Howe Excerpts
Monday 7th February 2022

(2 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Greenhalgh Portrait Lord Greenhalgh (Con)
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My Lords, that is a very good point, in the sense that we need to have a proper relationship with industry. We need to recognise that, in order to build homes—frankly, we do need great developers and good construction companies to do that—but we need to ensure that the regulatory system works. One of the reasons for Grenfell was the total failure in the regulatory system, from Whitehall right through to local authorities. Again, that is why we need the Building Safety Bill.

Earl Howe Portrait Earl Howe (Con)
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My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, has indicated her wish to speak and this may be a convenient moment.

Baroness Brinton Portrait Baroness Brinton (LD) [V]
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My Lords, while we all hope that the Government will hold developers and industry to account for paying for the remedial work, not just in due course but promptly, will that include and be backdated for waking watch payments that were and are required because of the unsafe cladding and other safety defects and which do not appear to be covered by the Secretary of State’s announcement of £27 million for fire alarms on 27 January?