Building: Safety
(asked on 25th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the written statement of 12 May 2022 by the Welsh Minister for Climate Change entitled Update on building safety, if he will (a) take steps to amend the pledge letters with developers and (b) include measures in future legal agreements with developers that will facilitate matching and proportionate commitments to leaseholders across the UK.
Answered by
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Housing and building safety are devolved matters and the progress of remediation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is a matter for the devolved administrations.
Ministers from all governments met to discuss building safety and wider issues of mutual interest on 24 May as part of the first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities chaired by the Secretary of State and agreed to work together.
The Department has a close-working relationship with the devolved administrations on building safety. Officials meet with representatives of all three devolved administrations regularly to discuss building safety.