Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Stephen Timms and Janet Daby

Monday 5th June 2023 Commons Chamber

[Sir Stephen Timms (East Ham) (Lab)]

2. What plans he has to help leaseholders affected by potentially dangerous cladding with increases in insurance charges.

[Janet Daby (Lewisham East) (Lab)]

17. What recent progress he has made on cladding and non-cladding remediation for residential buildings.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (Lee Rowley)]

The Government intend to enact reforms to improve the buildings insurance market by banning commissions, increasing the transparency of information and preventing unjustified legal costs when premiums are challenged. We are also pressing the insurance industry to launch its scheme. In 95% of all identified unsafe high-rise aluminium composite material buildings, and in 400 buildings supported by the building safety fund, remediation works have been either completed or started.