Social Housing and Building Safety

The right hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. He has been, if I may say so, a consistently cl...

The thoughts of myself and my party are with the families. It is hard to believe that it has been...

Yes, absolutely. The hon. Gentleman’s question gives me the opportunity to say thank you to Minis...

I appreciate what the Secretary of State has said because, obviously, there is a job of work that...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I know he is passionate about helping young peo...

I thank the Secretary of State for the Bills he is bringing forward. He talks about bringing in l...

Yes, that is our intention. The hon. Lady’s question gives me an opportunity to restate and under...

I appreciate my right hon. Friend’s response to the hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ruth...

I am very grateful to the Father of the House. I have received hundreds, if not thousands, of let...

I apologise to the House for being late to the debate; I have been chairing a meeting of the Hous...

The Chairman of the Select Committee is right to draw attention to that issue. One of the importa...

On 14 June 2017, every single person in this country watched in horror as a blaze in London becam...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right about the body—the Tenant Services Authority—that used to exis...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I would add to the many challenges currently facing councils ...

There are two important questions here. First, will participation by housing associations be volu...

I think my hon. Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee, is making the Secretary of State’s day...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. On the point she just addressed, there are leaseholde...

My right hon. Friend makes an extremely good suggestion, which I hope the Government will take up...

Tuesday is the five-year anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy and I start by paying tribute to my ...

I join all Members in this House in sending our condolences to the people from Grenfell Tower in ...

It is a privilege to speak in this debate. I, too, pay tribute to the families and survivors of t...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Of course; I happily give way to the Chairman of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Commit...

We raised the issue of insurers at the Select Committee. Premiums have gone up by ridiculous amou...

The hon. Gentleman is right, and I hope Ministers will do that. Again, the Secretary of State—who...

Does the hon. Member agree that the drive for merger is directly due to housing associations’ fun...

I think that we must look at the funding model for RSLs. There is no doubt that the ability to le...

I welcome the reflections made by the Secretary of State in his opening remarks on the Grenfell t...

As others have reminded us, next week will mark five years since the Grenfell fire which claimed ...

I begin by joining others in expressing my condolences to the families who are here—and others wh...

Thank you for calling me, Mr Speaker. I did apologise for being late for the beginning of the deb...

The right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) made this point. In the London borough of B...

It is a problem that is replicated nowadays. At one stage it was just a London problem, but it is...

It is a privilege to be able to wind up this important debate on behalf of the Opposition, and I ...

We have heard many powerful, heartfelt and emotional contributions from hon. Members in today’s d...

On that point, I have many constituents in a newly constructed property at Mar House in Colindale...

The Government have committed to £62 million of funding for the installation of fire alarms with ...

May I press the Minister on the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Greenwich and Woolw...

The best commitment I can make is that the regulator will be properly funded to discharge its dut...

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I see that the Chair of the Select Committee is desperate to discuss this further.

I thank the Minister for always being courteous in giving way. Is it not true that in the pilot t...

Far be it from me to heap praise on my boss, the Secretary of State, but given that he has years ...

Is my hon. Friend prepared to meet me and representatives of the industry to discuss some of the ...

I am delighted to make that commitment. My hon. Friend mentioned the complexity of the EWS1 form ...

As I tried to explain, there were applications for three different cladding systems. The building...

Rather than attempting to discuss that across the Chamber, it would be good to meet the right hon...