, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary,
commenting on saying that the Government's Building Safety Bill
is not designed to resolve issues around the building safety
scandal, said:
“Innocent leaseholders already feel that they are banging their
head against a brick wall, trapped in unsafe, unsellable homes
and facing huge remediation costs for works that are not their
fault. These comments will make them – and the many MPs of all
political parties who champion their cause – see red.
“Through the passage of the Fire Safety Bill we were told that
the Building Safety Bill would safeguard leaseholders from
remediation costs, yet the Bill as drafted puts them at the mercy
of building owners, forcing homeowners to pay.
"While Ministers talk their way out of solving the building
safety scandal, we’ll work cross Party to protect leaseholders
and ensure they can move on with their lives.”
Ends
Notes
Speaking about the building safety crisis, said today that "it’s not really the Building
Safety Bill that can resolve some of those points", directly
contradicting what the government has previously said.
https://twitter.com/NatBarkerIH/status/1412752254692700162?s=20
Ministers – including have repeatedly promised remediation costs would
be dealt with in the Building Safety Bill:
, 27 April: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-04-27/debates/A4AE4086-90C6-4D18-8F8D-050D5506D70A/FireSafetyBill
I place on record again that the Government are committed to
protecting leaseholders and tenants from the cost of remediation.
Under the plans announced by the Housing Secretary in February
this year, hundreds of thousands of leaseholders will be
protected from the cost of replacing unsafe cladding on their
homes. The £5.1 billion in grant funding made available to
leaseholders is unprecedented, but I agree that
leaseholders need stronger avenues for redress. The
building safety Bill will bring forward measures to do
this
, 17 March: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-03-17/debates/08516AD0-6FD5-4D4B-B673-49D317BF9E3D/FireSafetyBill
the draft building safety Bill is the appropriate legislative
mechanism for addressing the issue of who pays for mediation
, 24 February: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-02-24/debates/B4494BB1-F6D0-4BE1-A1BA-26761AE51C8D/FireSafetyBill
