Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is his Department's policy to support a mandatory competent person scheme for the installation of fire-resistant glazing.

Competent persons schemes are voluntary under the building regulations 2010, and we expect that the installation of fire resistant glazing would be covered by the existing scheme for general glazing. More generally, the issue for increasing competence across industry is being addressed through the work of the industry led Competence Steering Group to deliver the reforms recommended by Dame Judith Hackitt.