Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the recommendation of the Construction Industry Council's interim report entitled, Raising the Bar, published in August 2019, if he will make it his policy to establish a building safety regulator.

The Government has committed to establish a new Building Safety Regulator within the Health and Safety Executive. The regulator has begun operating in shadow form in order to prepare for transition to the new regulatory regime. Two of the regulator’s priorities will be to support industry-led work to strengthen professional competence across the sector, and to establish a committee to oversee its progress.