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HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I have two quick questions. The first is about how you think remediation should be funded. Some of us believe that leaseholders should not have to pay for fire safety defects…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (First sitting)Q I am interested that you picked up on the point about whom they would be accountable to. I was very struck by some evidence that we received from the UK Cladding Action Group,…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (First sitting)Q You mentioned that there is a bit of chicken-and-egg about what goes into primary legislation and what goes into secondary legislation—I think we are all alert to that—and that…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (First sitting)Q But yes to an audit, or not? Dan Daly: It depends on what the check is for the building and what the circumstances are. If you have the information, you can find what the…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (First sitting)Q I do, thank you, Mrs Miller. I am very much of the view that the Bill has taken a rather arbitrary approach by using height as well as the distinction between leaseholders and…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (First sitting)Q I have been struck by the approach of the Australian Government, particularly in the state of Victoria. Rather than just treating this as an issue to do with buildings, they…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (First sitting)I am also a vice-president of the Local Government Association.09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q We have received a fairly hefty chunk of evidence from a number of different industry players who have set out to us the new regulations, the new technical frameworks and the…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I am pleased to hear both of your answers; thank you for them. If I may get to the nuts and bolts, we all agree that there has to be culture change—we have heard that from a…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q To ensure that this is absolutely right for the parliamentary record, am I right in saying that, if the leaseholders want their freeholder to take reasonable steps and the…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Immense—there you go. I was almost there. They are facing immense costs on top of that. Am I right in saying that those are the choices you have just outlined facing leaseholders…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Thank you.09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q The Bill as drafted would to my mind enshrine a legal principle that leaseholders who are not at fault have to pay for defects not of their making. Could you talk us through the…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to return to Rachel’s question on the duty to co-operate. Just to push back a little bit, it is not really about joint working; it is about a legal obligation to work…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Please do. Thank you very much.09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q The Minister knows that the Government have introduced legislation to do with putting broadband into buildings where freeholders do not respond. The Government have introduced a…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q In my constituency of St Albans, I have a number of constituents who have been affected by this issue and are facing crippling costs to do with fire safety remediation. They…09 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I have a question about statutory instruments. One of the issues that many of us are trying to grapple with is what should be in primary legislation and what should be in…09 Sept 2021HANSARD AfghanistanIn times of crisis, the voices of women are often missing. Does my hon. Friend agree that whatever the UK Government and the international community do next, the protection of the…18 Aug 2021HANSARD AfghanistanDoes the hon. Lady agree that it is vital for local councils that have been willing for some time to take on additional refugees, such as mine in St Albans, to be given additional…18 Aug 2021