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Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of appointing a building safety tsar to develop a building safety remediation programme to ensure that companies responsibl

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
24 Oct 2024
Target answer date
28 Oct 2024
Answer
31 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of appointing a building safety tsar to develop a building safety remediation programme to ensure that companies responsibl

  2. 28 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    Since the Grenfell fire we have introduced funded remediation programmes to tackle historical safety defects. In addition, the National Building Safety Regulator, led by the Chief Inspector for Buildings ensures new buildings are designed, constructed and...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

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Buildings: Safety

31 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to secure contributions towards the costs of building safety remediation from cladding manufacturers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

31 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Shared Ownership Schemes: Fire Prevention

6 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing grants to housing associations to buy back homes from shared ownership leaseholders unable to sell their homes

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Long-term Plan for Towns: Runcorn

11 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when Runcorn receive the initial allocation of funding from the Long Term Plan for Towns scheme.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Social Rented Housing: Disability

14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of social housing with disability access.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions her Department has had with (a) cladding and (b) insulation manufacturers on financial contributions to building safety remediation works.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she expects building remediation works carried out through the Building Safety Fund to be completed.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

High Rise Flats: Fire Extinguishers

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of high rise buildings have sprinklers installed.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Building Safety Fund

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much (a) has been spent from and (b) remains in the Building Safety Fund as of 21 November 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Leasehold: Fees and Charges

22 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of leasehold fees on the (a) mental health and (b) finances of leaseholders.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Homelessness

22 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish a timetable for (a) the consultation period and (b) the publication date for the cross-government strategy on homelessness; and what steps she will take to en

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Housing: Fire Prevention

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of people living in leasehold properties with un-remediated fire safety issu