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HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am grateful to the Minister for giving way again and for saying that he is keeping an open mind on these issues. That is the right thing to do, and I commend him for it. He…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingThe Minister talks about the ban for residential blocks over 18 metres high. What evidence does he have to show that hotels and office blocks over 18 metres are safer than…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI take all the points the Minister makes in a generous spirit, but parents clearly would not want there to be flammable cladding on their children’s school, whatever other fire…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI agree with my hon. Friend. It is critical that that happens so that we can understand what went wrong in the process. If we do not understand it, we cannot stop it from ever…23 Jan 2019HANSARDEngagementsQ6. Britain is facing a homelessness crisis, and homelessness, like food banks and child poverty, is linked to deprivation. How can the Prime Minister justify removing the…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am grateful for the opportunity to raise the issue of fire safety, which is of great concern to many people in my constituency and throughout the country, particularly since the…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am grateful to my hon. Friend and neighbour for her intervention. It is telling that Shurgard saw fit to remove all the language about safety from its website after the fire. I…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingMy hon. Friend makes an important point. I am also interested in the insurance aspects of this case, including whether people were wrongly advised by the self-storage company…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI completely agree and am grateful for that intervention. Everybody who uses self-storage facilities needs to know that their possessions are safe when they put them in storage.…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention and completely agree with her. I hope that when the time comes the Minister is able to respond to that point. People who have been…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point, with which I have great sympathy. I believe that in this particular case the investigation is also in the hands of the police, because…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am grateful again to my hon. Friend for her intervention. One really cannot exaggerate the pain that has been caused. When anybody puts their most beloved and treasured…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am sure that many people who keep their possessions in such self-storage centres will be astonished to learn that the multinational companies, where they are multinational,…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention. I completely agree: the leaseholders seem to be the innocent party in all this. They certainly should not be forced to bear…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I know that he is fighting very hard on behalf of his residents who are living in these circumstances, and he makes a…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention. I, too, look forward to hearing a response from the Minister. I have tried to find out whether a newly rebuilt school in…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI am grateful for that helpful intervention and look forward to hearing the Minister’s response. I said that there were concerns about the state of the building regulations and…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI agree with my hon. Friend. It is absolutely extraordinary that we are not looking, right now, at a ban on all forms of flammable cladding. It is now 10 years later. What we see…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingAs I will come on to say during what remains of this debate, a partial ban is not a ban. This kind of cladding is still permitted on far too many buildings, and too many people…23 Jan 2019HANSARD Fire Safety and CladdingI will take an intervention in a moment, but I want to make this point, because it is linked to the issue that we are debating right now. In fact, there are still thousands of…23 Jan 2019