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HANSARDDraft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is certainly our intention that, once this has landed, the system of recognition will be reviewed. One thing that the regulations do is to freeze the qualifications at a…14 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Those are perfectly reasonable questions. We do not anticipate significant movement in the number of qualifications. Initially, the risk is low, but we would like to get the…14 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Let me make some progress. We will remove general systems as a route to registration, because it is a long and costly process that is not utilised often and it places a…14 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I thank Committee members for reviewing these regulations. I will attempt to answer some of the questions that have been raised. First, we acknowledge that the regulations are a…14 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019There might be a misunderstanding here. Fundamentally, the regulations set out that the recognition of the person’s qualification to practise stays exactly the same. The only…14 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Absolutely. Nobody wants there to be any delay in the provision of information, and the ARB will seek to obtain that information itself informally and on an ad hoc basis. There is…14 Mar 2019HANSARD Clyde House and A2DominionMy right hon. Friend poses a good question. I do not want to front-run the publication of the plan document, but she can be assured that one of the critical issues for the…14 Mar 2019HANSARD Clyde House and A2DominionI completely agree. I have a large number of housing association properties in my constituency, too, and my postbag as a constituency MP is filled with similar complaints. When I…14 Mar 2019HANSARD Clyde House and A2DominionI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Justine Greening) on securing this important debate. I understand her concerns and those of her constituents about the…14 Mar 2019HANSARD Clyde House and A2DominionI am grateful for my right hon. Friend’s intervention. I am pleased to hear that the system is working and that Wandsworth Council has played its part in resolving what was…14 Mar 2019HANSARD Clyde House and A2DominionThat is a very good question, to which I do not actually have the answer, but I will make inquires and write to the hon. Lady. In most cases, as I am sure she knows, it is at the…14 Mar 2019HANSARDDraft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. The regulations were laid before both Houses of Parliament…14 Mar 2019HANSARDFire Safety and Sprinkler SystemsI recognise the point that my right hon. Friend makes; he is quite right. Of the remaining private sector buildings, there are some where there is a dispute about the extent or…12 Mar 2019HANSARDFire Safety and Sprinkler SystemsIt is a great pleasure to appear before you once again, Mr Gray. I congratulate the hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Jim Fitzpatrick) on securing this debate, and my hon.…12 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is indefatigable and has raised that issue at every opportunity when I have been at the Dispatch Box. He is right that, as part of our affordable homes programme,…04 Mar 2019HANSARDNew HomesLast year more housing was delivered in England than in all but one of the past 31 years, but there is still much more to do, from reform of the planning system and developer…04 Mar 2019HANSARDNew HomesAs I hope the House knows, this Government are extremely ambitious about our environmental targets and want to push further and faster in order to achieve them. The hon. Lady is…04 Mar 2019HANSARDNew HomesMr Speaker, it will not surprise you to know that I am in constant conversation with my hon. Friend about his various ideas for the housing market from self-build to the reforms…04 Mar 2019HANSARDNew HomesI urge the hon. Lady to take care with her opinion of Help to Buy as a scheme: it is one of the few Government policies for which people actually stop me in the streets to thank…04 Mar 2019HANSARDBrownfield SitesOur national planning policies are clear about the importance of making full and efficient use of brownfield land, supported by the requirement for every authority to publish and…04 Mar 2019