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HANSARDDraft Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023I am sorry, Mr Gray. I have started off well, haven’t I? The regulations establish a responsible actors scheme for developers under sections 126 to 129 of the Building Safety Act…26 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question. It is a difficult question to answer, but I will try to articulate a response as best I can. We have assessed that in…26 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023The regulations seek to mirror the provisions in the developer contract that each individual developer has signed, and that is based on the PAS 9980 assessment, which concerns the…26 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023We are addressing the regulations for the responsible actors scheme, which my broader points have primarily reflected. If it would help the hon. Lady, I am happy to talk about…26 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023We are not proposing to change primary legislation at this stage. We believe that the situation works and aligns in a way that allows both the previous processes for the CAN to…26 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023The right hon. Gentleman makes a sensible point, and we are working towards doing that at the earliest possibly opportunity. I had meetings only last week on ensuring that that is…26 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023I am grateful for the question. I appreciate the importance of answering it, both for those who have an interest in it and for those watching who are affected by the issue. I hope…26 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023I hope the lending agreement that was articulated by the big six lenders in January goes some way towards answering that question. We are working with relevant conveyancing…26 Jun 2023HANSARDThurrock Council: Best Value Inspection ReportI am today publishing the best value inspection report into Thurrock Council, authored by their inspector, Essex County Council. The final version of this report was submitted to…15 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Regulations 2023I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Regulations 2023. It is a pleasure to serve under your…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Regulations 2023I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his pertinent question. He is absolutely right that we have to bring in new regulation and ensure that that is effective, compared…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Regulations 2023I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for raising that question. That will be in subsequent gateways and a subsequent part of what the Building Safety Regulator does. We are…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Regulations 2023My right hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. We have to ensure that the regulations are effective in solving the problem, which manifested itself in such a tragic way…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Regulations 2023Central—I almost got my points of the compass correct. To address the question from the right hon. Member for Leeds Central, I reassure all right hon. and hon. Members that they…13 Jun 2023HANSARDDraft Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Regulations 2023I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for confirming his support for the regulations. I look forward, hopefully, to the Committee’s commendation of them. Question put and…13 Jun 2023HANSARD Teesworks: Accountability and ScrutinyIt is, rightly, a long-standing convention that Opposition parties in this place have the opportunity to raise their concerns through debates such as this, to deal with the big…07 Jun 2023HANSARD Teesworks: Accountability and ScrutinyI give way to the hon. Gentleman, who can, perhaps, tell us precisely what corruption, wrongdoing and illegality he is alleging.07 Jun 2023HANSARD Teesworks: Accountability and ScrutinyI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for clarifying that important point, particularly in respect of the Department. It is important, given the inferences by the Opposition, to…07 Jun 2023HANSARD Teesworks: Accountability and ScrutinyThere is absolutely no silencing going on. We are debating, we will continue to debate, and we have set up a review to ensure that we understand the allegations that have been…07 Jun 2023HANSARD Teesworks: Accountability and ScrutinyThe hon. Lady has already had a significant amount of time in which to speak, and I am not willing to give her more time to produce similar innuendo. On 20 April the hon. Member…07 Jun 2023