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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will she make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a Building Works Agency to assist with building safety remediation.

We have a new Cladding Safety Scheme for the private sector with standardised assessment, tendering, technical support, funding and sign-off.

The scheme has for some time been consolidating other funds where this will help buildings go faster.

The Remediation Acceleration Plan focuses on the blockers and accelerators across all building owner types. It is essential to drive action now using all routes.

In the developer joint plan, for instance, we are driving a rapid acceleration in pace which would inevitably slow down if we re-designed the underlying framework for developers fixing their buildings.