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Building Safety Regulator

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many applications have waited longer than the 12-week timeframe that the Building Safety Regulator says it will take to complete its process in the last 12 months.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
21 Oct 2025
Target answer date
28 Oct 2025
Answer
28 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many applications have waited longer than the 12-week timeframe that the Building Safety Regulator says it will take to complete its process in the last 12 months.

  2. 28 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has reported that 930 Gateway 2 applications decided in the last 12 months (between 24 October 2024 and 23 October 2025) took longer than 12 weeks to reach a decision.The BSR is already making operational and policy cha...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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