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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of engaging specialist inspectors to undertake further checks during the cladding removal process to ensure that correct building regulations were followed during the period of construction.

The removal and remediation of unsafe cladding will require building regulations approval and should comply with current building regulations. Primary responsibility for compliance with the requirements in the regulations lies with the person carrying out the building work. However, building regulations approval can only come from a building control body, such as the local authority or registered approved inspector, who will inspect the work on site at the appropriate stages of the building work.