Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what monitoring takes place to ensure that local authorities are fulfilling their duties in ensuring that new buildings are compliant with building regulations.

The Department carries out a regular Building Control Performance Standards survey to monitor work by local authorities to ensure that new buildings are compliant with the building regulations. Local authorities are asked to report against those standards, which are designed to encourage consistent, high-quality building control services. The Government is assessing options for strengthening the performance of building control bodies, as part of its response to Dame Judith Hackitt’s independent review of building regulations and fire safety.