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HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Point taken, Mr Dowd.26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)On the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, we had three sessions of evidence from many people across the country who have gone through covid, have lived since…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)It is a pleasure, Mrs Miller, to serve under your chairship. I thank the hon. Gentleman for letting me intervene. He talks about this being “convoluted”, but we talked last week…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. We are back to the point about a change of culture. The amendment would hardwire into the Bill a requirement to hear…21 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Let me read out something to put in context what my hon. Friend says about hardwiring and what the clause does. Darren Matthews says: “I am ruined. Shared owner (50% for £63,000)…21 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)On the ability of a leaseholder to bring a civil claim against a contractor, there is a real fear about the ability of David to challenge Goliath. In our discussions on the Bill,…21 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for giving way, and it is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. The independence of the scheme is critical and the Minister has not really…21 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)I have a simple question: what would have happened to who, if that was applied to Grenfell? That is the first part of the question. The second part is whether a two-year sentence…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)Thank you, Chair, for your patience in bringing us through this process, because some of us are new to this.19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am not specifically asking about Grenfell per se, but an example like Grenfell that could happen again. That is what I am trying to draw out: is two years sufficient, and would…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)Where would the special measures managers come from?19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Mrs Miller. If an accountable person is potentially utilising their position to bully a resident, what recourse does that resident…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd, especially after some recent results. Many people do not have digital access, despite the preoccupation with it. They…19 Oct 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have been contacted by bereaved constituents who have lost their loved ones to covid-19, and I would like to pay tribute to all those families in Liverpool, West Derby today in…23 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)rose —23 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)Thank you, Mr Efford; it is pleasure to know that there is a fellow taxi driver in the room. I didn’t realise you were an ex-cabbie—that makes two of us. On the issue of local…23 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)It is really good to hear the Minister talk about social housing, because when the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has taken evidence on this we have heard…23 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. For me, this is about funding, as it was last week. We go back to delivery. As the hon. Gentleman says, this is…21 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)On the issue of competence, last week we touched on training—the funding of training and who is going to do it. We will need lots and lots of people, and that is a huge…21 Sept 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for his long and knowledgeable contribution. I was listening to what he was saying. What a wonderful opportunity for the trade unions to be involved in…21 Sept 2021