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HANSARDBuilding Safety DefectsWe have quite a lot of the data on the number of medium-rise buildings, and there are far more medium-rise buildings than there are high-rise ones. The figure of 77,000 is broadly…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety DefectsI take that as a helpful interjection. We need to think about how we protect leaseholders, and sometimes statutory protection is a good thing. We know that the Building Safety…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety DefectsA new levy and tax will ensure that industry contributes; building owners and industry should make buildings safe without passing on costs to leaseholders. We are examining the…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Regulations: Sanitary ProvisionMy Lords, the noble Baroness is absolutely right that there has been a long-standing decline in public toilet provision. In fact, I got the department to produce up-to-date…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety DefectsMy Lords, my noble friend has decades of experience in government, and he knows that levies and taxes are a matter for the Treasury. However, not only my department, but others as…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety DefectsMy Lords, it is for my right honourable friend to set out this approach. It is entirely proper that he should do that, and he has undertaken to do so. He has set out the…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Regulations: Sanitary ProvisionMy Lords, as part of my ministerial duties, I am the Building Regulations Minister, and we are reviewing, in response to the Hackitt review, all our building regulations,…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Regulations: Sanitary ProvisionMy Lords, there is no doubt that the pandemic has reduced the number of visitors in the last couple of years, as we know from the contraction of our airline industry, but we are…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Regulations: Sanitary ProvisionMy Lords, to respond to that very sensible question, it is not in the gift of central government to control the number of toilets, but what we can do is provide funds to encourage…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety DefectsIt is not arbitrary; it is well established that 18 metres is the cut-off point for a high-rise building. It helps us to categorise buildings. We do it in storeys as well. We have…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Regulations: Sanitary ProvisionI have been listening very actively and am happy to take that point on board. I thank my noble friend for it.05 Jan 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety DefectsI know that there is a “broken promises” line, but the reality is that 95% of ACM buildings have been remediated. Actually, we have accelerated at pace while I have been Building…05 Jan 2022HANSARDUK Community Renewal FundAs a local authority leader for some of the most deprived parts of the country, I used to look at the index of multiple deprivation very carefully. The borough that I led for six…08 Dec 2021HANSARDUK Community Renewal FundWith regard to union, it was very clear that we wanted to fund all four nations. That criterion was set from the outset. In addition, we wanted to raise all boats and strengthen…08 Dec 2021HANSARDUK Community Renewal FundOf course I am not saying that. I am saying that there is a methodology and approach and that they are transparent. We have funded those bids according to that methodology. There…08 Dec 2021HANSARDUK Community Renewal FundThe noble Lord is a champion and a crusader on this, and quite rightly. This is something that we take seriously and have taken particularly seriously during this pandemic, so…08 Dec 2021HANSARDUK Community Renewal FundThe sham is the analysis conducted by the University of West London. I have lived in west London all my life and I have never heard of the University of West London. Its…08 Dec 2021HANSARDUK Community Renewal FundThe Government have confirmed that applications to the UK community renewal fund were assessed against the criteria set out in the prospectus and the assessment criteria published…08 Dec 2021HANSARDUK Community Renewal FundI have some sympathy with the noble Lord’s first question: there are probably too many funding pots. We are doing our best to narrow those down as we move towards the levelling-up…08 Dec 2021HANSARDUK Community Renewal FundNo, it is not—absolutely not. A clear methodology has been set out. It will benefit all the regions of the UK pretty much in equal part.08 Dec 2021