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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department's Consolidated Advice Note, Building safety advice for building owners, including fire doors, published in January 2020 will be updated to ensure that the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) can update its own guidance on challenging defective building works for the purpose of fire safety rectifications post-Grenfell; and when the updated RICS position will be implemented.

The Government made clear in its 21 July statement (HCWS 228), its intention to retire the Consolidated Advice Note.  RICS have committed to consider the impact of the Government's statement on their guidance for valuers and we are encouraging them to complete that process as soon as possible.