PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Waking Watch Replacement Fund: Tooting (16 May 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will fund the waking watch costs incurred since 5 May 2022 of (a) Fitzgerald House despite the closure of the waking watch fund in March 2022.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

The application period for the Waking Watch Replacement Fund closed on 28 March 2022. The fund is designed to cover the costs of installing a common fire alarm system to replace Waking Watch measures where the costs of the Waking Watch are being passed onto leaseholders. We understand that a Waking Watch was installed at Fitzgerald House on 5 May. My officials have spoken to the managing agents for the building who inform us that they are taking steps to mitigate the risk in the building. The steps being taken will remove the need for a Waking Watch without recourse to a common fire alarm system.

Answered by:
Stuart Andrew (Conservative)
23 May 2022