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Whole Day Download the Hansard Monday Volume 692 19 April 2021 No. 202 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Monday 19 April 2021 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2021 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 635 19 APRIL 2021 636 aluminium composite material-clad buildings. We are House of Commons clear that buildings below 18 metres also need help, which is why we have tabled this generous package of Monday 19 April 2021 support where otherwise there would be no support. It is also clear that developers and building owners are stepping up to the plate and remediating the buildings The House met at half-past Two o’clock for which they are responsible, and are providing funds so to do. PRAYERS Rushanara Ali [V]: Many leaseholders have spent [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] their third lockdown stuck in buildings with serious safety defects and are unsure when the works will be Virtual participation in proceedings commenced (Orders, completed. The Minister talks about providing a generous 4 June and 30 December 2020). scheme for blocks of 18 metres or less. Can he explain [NB: [V] denotes a Member participating virtually.] to the House how generous that programme is, how much is being committed and when our constituents can expect the works to be completed—both for blocks Oral Answers to Questions under 18 metres and blocks over 18 metres that require remedial works—so that people do not have to continue to live in potential death traps? HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Christopher Pincher: With respect to buildings over 18 metres, the hon. Lady will know that we set aside The Secretary of State was asked— funds of £1 billion using the building safety fund in order to deal with properties with non-ACM dangerous Fire Safety: Buildings under 18 Metres cladding material. Some 106 buildings have already begun that work and we estimate that a further 338 will Janet Daby (Lewisham East) (Lab): What support he begin the work by September, which was the date that plans to provide to (a) leaseholders and (b) tenants we set for work using BSF funds to be undertaken. living in buildings under 18 metres of height with With respect to buildings below 18 metres, we want to flammable cladding. [914294] ensure that we are prioritising affordability and accelerating remediation where it is required. It is a complex set of Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow) (Lab): What challenges, but we are determined to meet them and to steps he is taking to support leaseholders living in get this right, which is why we will bring forward further buildings under 18 metres in height with (a) dangerous information as soon as we are able to do so. cladding and (b) other fire safety defects. [914299] Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab): Can the Minister The Minister for Housing (Christopher Pincher): Buildings explain why three quarters of cladding systems on new below 18 metres in height will not carry the same medium-rise buildings have used combustible insulation inherent risk as a building above 18 metres. However, materials despite a proposed Government ban on them? some will need remediation. Togive residents in lower-rise That is 51 out of 66 residential blocks of 11 to 18 metres buildings peace of mind, we are establishing a generous in height built in 2019 and 2020 that are now liable for scheme to ensure that, where required, cladding can be the imposition of unwanted Government loans. There remediated on buildings between 11 metres and 18 metres. is the nightmare of EWS1 forms, inflated insurance Leaseholders will be asked to pay no more than £50 a premium costs, service charges and much, much more. month, protecting them against these unaffordable costs. At what stage are the ministerial team going to get a We will work at pace to develop the details of the grip of this chaos? scheme and communicate them to the House as quickly as possible. Christopher Pincher: The hon. Gentleman knows full well the work that the Government have undertaken to Janet Daby [V]: No one needs reminding that we are ensure that we address this complicated issue, which nearly at the four-year anniversary of the Grenfell involves buildings, building owners, warranty providers, disaster, yet many of my constituents remain trapped in insurers and leaseholders themselves. We have brought dangerous homes and, because of this Government’s forward a very generous set of schemes. More than arbitrary decision to only help those in buildings above £5.1 billion of public money has already been allocated 18 metres, they feel hopeless and invisible. Does the to remediate taller high-rise buildings. We have proposed Secretary of State agree that no leaseholder should have a generous scheme to support people living in leasehold to pay for fire safety problems that are simply not their properties between 11 and 18 metres. We will announce fault, and that people should not be required to pay further details of that scheme shortly so that the people even £50 or less a month, regardless of whether their living in them can have peace of mind that they have a building is 7 metres, 18 metres or even lower? way out too. Christopher Pincher: The hon. Lady is right; great progress has been made over the last four years to UK Shared Prosperity Fund ensure that the remediation of high-rise properties is undertaken, because that is where we have been guided Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab): What progress by official advice. I can tell the House that remediation his Department has made on the design of the UK has either been completed or is under way in 95% of shared prosperity fund. [914295] 637 Oral Answers 19 APRIL 2021 Oral Answers 638 The Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government The Minister for Housing (Christopher Pincher): In (Luke Hall): The UK shared prosperity fund will help 2018 and 2019 we saw the highest and the second-highest to level up and create opportunity across the United number of first-time buyers since 2007. With the effect Kingdom. The spending review 2020 set out the main of covid, 2020 saw a 14% decrease from the 2019 total. strategic elements of the UKSPF in the heads of terms, The Government are now redoubling their efforts to and we will publish a UK-wide investment framework assist first-time buyers. That is why today we launched in 2021 and confirm a multi-year funding profile at the themortgageguaranteeschemeofferinga95%loan-to-value next spending review. We are providing an additional mortgage, developing first homes and enabling first-time £220 million through the UK community renewal fund buyers to purchase new-build homes locally with at least to help those areas to prepare for the introduction of a 30% discount—a determined effort to support buyers. the UKSPF. Ms Buck [V]: For many first-time buyers, especially in Jessica Morden [V]: Wales received £375 million a cities, the options are mainly new-build and leasehold year under the EU structural funds but this Government’s properties, but many of them are walking into a new levelling-up fund is giving Wales only £30 million a nightmare of costs. Inside Housing is today reporting on year, while the community renewal fund’s pilot projects purchasers buying properties as safe only to discover split £220 million across the four nations. Can the almost immediately that the ratings are changing, leaving Minister see why my constituents are already sceptical them with huge bills for waking watch, and unsaleable that this Government will fulfil their promise that Wales properties. Does the Minister know how many first-time will receive “not a penny less”? buyers are affected by this, and why is the only truly blameless party, the purchaser, the one who is still left Luke Hall: Levels of investment from EU structural carrying the can and the risk? funds will be higher across the United Kingdom in Christopher Pincher: There are a suite of options for ’21-22 than they were in ’20-21. We are also finding first-time buyers. They can purchase a home using the additional UK funding to support our communities to Help to Buy scheme.They can take advantage of our shared pilot programmes and new approaches. The hon. Lady ownership scheme, whereby, under the new proposals, mentions the levelling-up fund. Her local authority will failings and defects will be fixed by the developer for the receive £150,000 capacity funding support with that first 10 years. As I said, the mortgage guarantee scheme bidding process. As we set out in the spending review, that we announced today allows first-time buyers and funding for the UKSPF will ramp up so that total others to purchase homes with as little as 5% deposit. domestic UK-wide funding will at least match EU receipts, reaching £1.5 billion a year. These funds will We are determined to ensure that first-time buyers are have a real, lasting impact on communities that will able to achieve their dream and get on to the property make a significant difference to tackling deprivation ladder. That is a world away from the campaign that the and inequality, and binding together our precious United hon. Lady chairs—the campaign of Sadiq Khan, who Kingdom. promised to build 116,000 homes in London but has thus far managed to deliver only 28,000. I wonder Kate Hollern (Blackburn) (Lab) [V]: I thank the whether that is why the housing pledge, which was at Minister for recognising when I met him last week that the top of his campaign in 2016, is now second from the UK shared prosperity fund will need to be more bottom in 2021.
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