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Buildings: Fire Prevention

Commons · Question 75510 · Tabled 5 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 11 Sep 2025

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Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that buildings previously deemed compliant by local fire services are not subject to excessive remedial costs due to reinterpretations of insul

Answer

Answered by Samantha Dixon, 11 Sep 2025

The higher-risk building regime fundamentally reforms the way higher-risk buildings are designed, built and managed. They change the building control process, and place new duties on accountable persons when these buildings are managed, to make sure that ...