PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Buildings: Insulation (22 February 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department has taken to ensure there is a supply of qualified builders and engineers to undertake cladding remediation works.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

Remediation of buildings with unsafe cladding must be carried out by professionals with appropriate competence and experience, and anyone applying for public funds is required to demonstrate that their remediation plan meets those requirements. Demand for those professionals is high and the Government is working with industry to increase the supply of trained professionals

We are supporting industry-led work to raise competence standards for safety-critical roles, including fire engineers, structural engineers, installers and fire risk assessors and provisions in the Building Safety Bill will increase competence requirements. We are supporting industry-led work to upskill professionals in those roles, including investing nearly £700k to train assessors to carry out valuations where EWS1 forms are required (over 1,000 people now enrolled in a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors course).

Answered by:
Stuart Andrew (Conservative)
25 February 2022