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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to use the forthcoming review of Building Regulations in England to propose that the Nationally Described Space Standard in Building Regulations be compulsory.

The Government is working on its programme for undertaking the reviews of Building Regulations guidance recommended by Dame Judith Hackitt in her review of Building Regulations and fire safety and will set out its plans in due course.