Question follow-through · 40842
Building Regulations
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to review it's guidance on competent person schemes: conditions of authorisation.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to review it's guidance on competent person schemes: conditions of authorisation.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Building Safety Regulator is responsible for oversight of the competent person schemes and has committed in its Strategic Plan 2023-2026 to carry out a review of the conditions of authorisation, which must be met by all competent person schemes to en...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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