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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if the Department will set out how it intends to scale-up resource within the Health and Safety Executive in order for the Building Safety Regular to have the capacity required to carry out its duties in line with the Building Safety Act 2022.

The Building Safety Regulator was established in shadow form in the Health and Safety Executive in January 2020, to assist the Government to develop the reforms that resulted in the Building Safety Act 2022, and to prepare itself, and the sector, for the new regulatory regime. We are providing the funding necessary for the Health and Safety Executive to scale up its resource to carry out its duties. Health and Safety Executive spent over £17 million additional funding on shadow Building Safety Regulator work in 2021/22.