PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Buildings: Fire Prevention (11 January 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help ensure that property developers are responsible for covering the remedial costs of fire safety defects; and what steps he is taking give those undertakings a statutory footing.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

As the Secretary of State announced on 10 January, building owners and industry should make buildings safe without passing on costs to leaseholders, and leaseholders living in their own medium and high-rise buildings should not pay a penny to remediate historic cladding defects that are no fault of their own.

It is also wrong to look to the taxpayer for another bailout for manufacturers and developers who created and installed dangerous fire safety building systems. Instead, we are clear that industry must develop a solution to resolve the problems they have caused and pay to fix them. If they do not agree to solving this crisis, we will look to impose a solution in legislation.

Answered by:
Christopher Pincher (Independent)
19 January 2022