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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2020 to Question 74630, what progress his Department has made on property valuation arrangements and the use of EWS1 forms for buildings under 18 metres since the June lender roundtable.

Further to the Ministerial roundtable, Department officials have been meeting with lenders over the parliamentary recess period. Some lenders have said they would be open to other evidence on value-affecting building safety matters. Where building owners are able to offer such equivalent evidence, we would encourage lenders to accept that for valuation purposes. A further roundtable with the Minister for Building Safety is being scheduled.