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HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I welcome the Minister’s assurance and comments on actually doing an assessment of the subletting landscape; opportunities may exist in future. We might come back to the whole…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The very notion of shared ownership implies to me—and I am sure to others in Committee—an element of joint responsibility.…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am sure we will have further discussions on Report, but I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 22 Assessment of the impact of…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I concur with my hon. Friend. When I was a councillor in the Manchester area, I saw the results of that very standards programme. But we cannot excuse landlords; it is on their…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause would ensure that the Government published an assessment of the impact of building safety costs on registered…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 17 Presumption of allowing urgent building safety remediation work “(1) If a leaseholder or…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I welcome the Minister’s commitment to expand the data that will be available in the public domain when it is quality assured. However, as a point of clarity: when is due course?26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Residents in my constituency and across the country would not accept that definition of affordable homes: the Government have vandalised that definition over a number of years.…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause takes its lead from the Government’s statistics on ACM remediation. The most recent release, the September…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)This is an emergency and an urgent crisis. We have a new Secretary of State, so we can look afresh at the matter. We have looked across the water at something that works. I know…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)We have the Building Safety Regulator, as the hon. Member rightly pointed out, centralising what works in co-operation with the other stakeholders, including local fire services…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the clause.26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. We have had the same strategy for at least 35 years. The Government’s laissez-faire approach simply picked at the edges of a…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Although we will withdraw the new clause, we may come back to this issue on Report. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 14 Agency to…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to welcome you to your place, Mrs Miller, for the final time on this Committee’s journey. I will withdraw the new clause, noting that we have the opportunity for…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for giving way again. He is generous with his time. To help focus minds in the insurance sector, will the Government consider a referral to the Competition…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The evidence is crystal clear. Despite interventions by Lord Greenhalgh—just mentioned—premiums are still going up, regardless of whether a building is 11 to 18 metres or 18…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. Insurance costs are suffocating leaseholders up and down the country. I know that the Minister is keen for me to bring up…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)When 90% of leaseholders surveyed by UK Cladding Action Group and End Our Cladding Scandal cite mental health and anxiety as a major concern, and when 25% have considered taking…26 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)How will the Minister and the Department approach helping the 90% of leaseholders surveyed who are affected by anxiety and mental health issues? What co-ordination is there…26 Oct 2021