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HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)Regardless of how buildings have ended up in scope—whether through permitted development rights or otherwise—they will be part of the regime. Therefore, the golden thread will…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)The Government are committed to bringing about the biggest improvement in building and fire safety for a generation. The clause creates a power to make regulations to require a…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)On a point of order, Mrs Miller. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, and I am just marginally embarrassed that I am starting that experience by making an apology. I…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)I have two points. With regard to the idea that some of this information will be developed as secondary legislation and the idea of scrutiny and challenge, we will use the…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)I think there is a terrible possibility that I may not have completely understood the case the hon. Lady was making. The point about the assessment is that it will be a live…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful for the opportunity of further deliberation on this point. The Bill will stipulate the level of competence, and remuneration will vary across the country. I…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is an important point. We need to strike a balance between being prescriptive, and setting very specific regulatory periods within which tasks have to be performed, and…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)We return to the question of capacity. I touched on the idea that organisations such as housing associations or councils already have their buildings under a management structure…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)Clause 83 relates to the undertaking of comprehensive and regular assessments of building safety risks in occupied higher-risk building. The independent review identified that,…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)That is an interesting point. As I said, we need to ensure that the building safety regulator is kept informed and they will be able to determine that the new building safety…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.23 Sept 2021HANSARDEden North: Benefits for LancashireIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr Efford, having enjoyed that pleasure on the Building Safety Bill. I have a tickly cough, so if it sounds like I am…22 Sept 2021HANSARDChatham DocksThe national planning policy framework is clear that strategic policies should set out an overall strategy for the pattern, scale and design and quality of places. They should…16 Sept 2021HANSARDChatham DocksWe all appreciate that a reshuffle has been going on, although it seems to have been paused for the moment. I strongly suspect that the Prime Minister has tuned in to this debate;…16 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (First sitting)I am a member of the Chartered Institute of Building.09 Sept 2021HANSARDDefinition of IslamophobiaI will proceed as quickly as I possibly can. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray. I congratulate the hon. Member for Bradford West (Naz Shah) and my hon.…09 Sept 2021HANSARDDefinition of IslamophobiaI completely concur with my hon. Friend’s comments. As a man of faith, I firmly believe that Muslims in our country should be able to practise their faith in freedom. This…09 Sept 2021HANSARDDefinition of IslamophobiaI am not sure whether the definition that the hon. Lady refers to was completely universally accepted, but it is internationally accepted—and therein lies the difference. As has…09 Sept 2021HANSARDDefinition of IslamophobiaI give way to the hon. Member for Bradford West.09 Sept 2021HANSARDDefinition of IslamophobiaTime is against me, unfortunately. I will say, for all the reasons I set out earlier, that the actions taken by this Government to develop community cohesion and address some of…09 Sept 2021