Question follow-through · 62485
Property Development: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of licensing building companies.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2025 · 8 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
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of licensing building companies.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Grenfell Inquiry recommended that principal contractors wanting to work on higher-risk buildings should need a licence, which would be managed by the construction regulator. It also recommended that when applying for building control approval for thes...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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27 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the performance of Royal Mail delivery services in Wellington, Somerset; what steps Royal Mail is taking to increase staffing levels and improve delivery
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