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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to annex A of his Department's Building a safer future implementation plan published in December 2018, whether the final proposals of the competence steering group were delivered in April 2019; and if he will publish those proposals.

The Competence Steering Group has submitted to Government its initial proposals for an overarching system to oversee competence requirements for buildings in scope, as part of its work to improve competence, for inclusion in our consultation ‘Building a Safer Future: a consultation’ (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/residents-encouraged-to-have-their-say-to-improve-building-safety), published on 6 June 2019. The report can be found at Annex E. The Group expects to publish its full report covering all recommendations from its working groups in June for an industry-led consultation.