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Building Safety Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Thurlow (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Monday, 28 February 2022. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Building Safety Bill.

I support the very interesting comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Fox—most interestingly, it is immensely refreshing to listen to an amendment that is driven not only by cost savings for leaseholders but by common sense. In many cases, the sub-contracting of services on multi-let buildings is appointed through external managing agents, who apply a levy; they will charge, let us say, 10% on the fee for the work being done. In the £60,000 example, another £6,000 goes on to the tenants’ bills at the end of the year.

I simply support this proposal. It will be a difficult one for the Minister, but common sense is short in the Bill because of the layers of bureaucracy. This will save money for tenants.

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

819 c205GC 

Session

2021-22

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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