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HANSARDFire Safety Bill (First sitting)Q You mentioned maintaining skills and competencies. Who do we need? What is your view of fire risk assessors, and should we have a system whereby they are accredited in some way?…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (First sitting)Q How do you think the other pieces of legislation that are coming forward sit together? We have the building safety Bill, for example. One of the concerns that have been raised…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)I will withdraw the amendment on the basis that there will be a task and finish group, but I stress that we have had a lot of groups, conversations and consultations. In my…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Mr Dobson, in my former brief as the shadow housing Minister, I worked a lot with RIBA regarding the excellent work that you have done looking at all these issues post Grenfell.…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)The new clause does what the Government say will come later: it puts on the face of the Bill the recommendations made in the Grenfell Tower inquiry phase 1 report. At the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)I thank the Minister for his response. He was basically saying that amendment 2 is unnecessary, which I would challenge, because the fire service has asked for the definition and…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)I will be brief. I want to make a point about finances and resources, and it seems fitting to mention that as we debate clause 2. We heard a lot of evidence this morning about the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)As the Minister said, we recently passed the three-year anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. I just want to mention the letter that we will all have received from Grenfell…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)I beg to move amendment 3, in clause 2, page 1, line 21, at end insert— ‘(aa) for the purpose of changing or clarifying any of articles 2 to 22 or 38 of the Order’. This amendment…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)Amendments 3 and 4 would ensure that the key articles of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 could be amended to account for the Grenfell Tower public inquiry phase 1…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)I beg to move amendment 6, in clause 3, page 2, line 25, after “may” insert “not”. This amendment seeks to ensure that the Bill be brought into force at the same time for all…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)Very briefly—although, we are now doing well for time—I want to reiterate the point about the Bill not having a date for when the new requirements will come into force, aside from…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Mr Wrack, do you think that we understand the scale of the problem that we face? According to the figures that came out this week, an extraordinarily high proportion—I think it…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)Thank you, Sir Gary—I did wonder whether that was the correct way to address you when you are in the Chair. I also forgot to say, “It is a pleasure to serve under your…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Mr Davis, you are a fire engineer and have a master’s degree, so you are enormously well qualified. Can you talk us through your model of what good looks like in fire risk…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)Let me start by saying that the Opposition support the Bill. We are here to be constructive. Although clearly we wish that things had gone faster and that we had been able to do…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)It is good to get these things right. I welcome the two new clauses proposed by the hon. Member for St Albans, who speaks for the Liberal Democrats. We are coming from the same…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (Second sitting)I agree; it is shocking. We have all seen examples, and one was given to us this morning. In 2017 an independent fire risk assessor was given a four-month jail sentence when a…25 Jun 2020HANSARDFire Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Mr Wrack, could you just give us your view on the current system of fire risk assessors and how that needs to be changed? Labour and the Liberal Democrats have tabled amendments…25 Jun 2020