Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans for the indemnity scheme for professionals carrying out EWS1 forms to be open.

The Government is working to finalise the design elements of our indemnity scheme for specific competent professionals carrying out EWS1 assessments and we are rapidly testing those elements with the sector.

Further details on the scheme, including eligibility and the opening dates, will be provided. We appreciate the pressing timescales to deliver what we know is a much-needed intervention for leaseholders and freeholders in higher-risk residential buildings.