Question follow-through · 12866
Housing: Solar Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward regulations to ensure that solar panels fitted to new housing are (a) safe and (b) pose a low fire risk.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2024 · 20 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward regulations to ensure that solar panels fitted to new housing are (a) safe and (b) pose a low fire risk.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Building Regulations apply to new building work and are intended to protect people’s safety, health and welfare. They may apply when somebody is putting up a new building, making material changes to a building, extending an existing building or alteri...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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