Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the take-up of the right of new home buyers to request the building inspection records for the property, which was introduced on 1 April 2017.
As part of the annual survey of performance against the Building Control Performance Standards, all building control bodies have been asked how many requests for inspection records have been made between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018. We expect to publish the results of the survey in the Building Control Performance Indicators 2017/18 report early 2019. The report will also be available on the Department's website.