Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many audits his Department has conducted under the Developer Self Remediation Terms in relation to (a) building assessments and (b) post-remediation qualifying assessments between April 2023 and March 2024.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
Publicly available data on the developer contract can be found here.
The Department encourages developers to discuss challenges and successes with the oversight team. Best practice examples are shared with other developers as appropriate.
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that signatories of the developer remediation contract are taking responsibility for buildings where they are a contractor.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
Publicly available data on the developer contract can be found here.
The Department encourages developers to discuss challenges and successes with the oversight team. Best practice examples are shared with other developers as appropriate.
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of weeks to obtain planning permission for building safety remediation works following the transition to a new Building Safety Regulator on 6 April 2024.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
Building regulations approval is separate from planning permission.
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what information his Department published on the treatment of jointly owned properties under the Building Safety Act's leaseholder protections, prior to his Department's Call for evidence: Jointly owned properties, published on 21 March 2024.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
The Building Safety Act can be found here: Building Safety Act 2022 (legislation.gov.uk).
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: (on maternity leave) The Rt Hon Chris PHILP MP Minister of State (Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire
Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) Last week, on the new building safety approach for high-rise buildings, we were very clear in a joint - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) As a leaseholder myself, I am a bit baffled as to why people are not protected when fire remediation - Speech Link
3: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) We are working with each of those three buildings to make the progress we need to make. - Speech Link
4: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) Importantly, £1.2 billion is going into prevention, so that we prevent homelessness before it happens - Speech Link
5: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) That is why we are investing £2.4 billion, of which £1.2 billion is specifically for the homelessness prevention - Speech Link
Report Apr. 22 2024
Committee: Health, Social Care and Sport CommitteeFound: Section 20 of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012This section provides that it is the "duty
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: Convention of the Highlands and Islands minutes: March 2024Found: There's no fire alarm planned for today, so if the alarm goes off, you should proceed directly to your
Report Apr. 19 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: national risks, including extreme weather, the government needs to focus more on medium- and long-term prevention
Mentions:
1: Griffin, Mark (Lab - Central Scotland) for the endorsement of trade unions, including Unite, USDAW, the GMB, Unison, PFA Scotland and the Fire - Speech Link
2: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) Many of the changes that stakeholders want, including a greater emphasis on the prevention of workplace - Speech Link
3: Stevenson, Collette (SNP - East Kilbride) The Fire Brigades Union Scotland said in evidence that having an advisory council in place is“essential - Speech Link
4: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) evidence on all of that from a range of organisations, such as the Royal College of Nursing and the Fire - Speech Link