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  • Fire and Building Safety (2)

    • Reference: 2020/4278
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    In the last 24 months how many fire risk assessments have been collected by the London Fire Brigade from the Responsible Person and how many of them have been formally reviewed? Please break this down by i) the height of building, and ii) the month/year in which they were collected.

  • Fire and Building Safety (3)

    • Reference: 2020/4279
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    What percentage of the high-rise buildings (those over 6 storeys or 18 metres tall) in London have had their fire risk assessments collected and formally reviewed by the LFB in the last 24 months?

  • Fire and Building Safety (4)

    • Reference: 2020/4280
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Are you and the LFB looking at how you can work with London’s world-leading tech sector to create and trial building and fire safety solutions across the capital?

  • Fire and Building Safety (5)

    • Reference: 2020/4281
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Do you agree with me that it is wrong that under current legislation leaseholders have no legal right to see the fire risk assessment for the building in which they live?

  • Fire and Building Safety (6)

    • Reference: 2020/4282
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Do you support the proposal for a public register of fire risk assessments, so would-be renters and owners can check the fire safety status of their potential new home, such as the one used to register domestic Energy Performance Certificates (EPC)?

  • Fire and Building Safety (7)

    • Reference: 2020/4283
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Would you support the establishment of a public register of fire risk assessors so homeowners can verify that fire assessors are qualified to conduct compulsory checks, and enable government and industry to assess the numbers required to be trained?

  • LFB Fire Safety Review of Care Homes

    • Reference: 2020/4284
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    I understand the LFB recently undertook fire safety reviews of London care homes. Can you please provide the details of what practical actions came from this review as well as timescales and progress on the actions that were identified? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/03/care-homes-fail-fire-sa…

  • ACM Cladding Remediation

    • Reference: 2020/4285
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    According to a recent MHCLG report, there are 251 high-rise residential and publicly owned buildings identified with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations in London, 72 in Greater Manchester and 137 in the Rest of England. Remediation is complete for 78 buildings in London (31% of all buildings identified in the capital), 38 buildings in Greater Manchester (53%), and 86 buildings in the Rest of England (63%). Do you share my serious concerns that London is significantly behind the rest of the country in terms of the remediation of Grenfell-style ACM cladding remediation works, and how are you...

  • Letting of Shared Ownership Properties that are Awaiting an EWS1 Assessment

    • Reference: 2020/4286
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Some housing associations are allowing flexibility so that shared owners can let out their property while the building is awaiting an EWS1 assessment as owners are currently unable to sell them without such an assessment. What is your position on this, and if you support this will you be encouraging all housing associations to offer the same degree of flexibility to shared owners in such situations?

  • Retention of Social Housing Stock

    • Reference: 2020/4287
    • Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
    • Meeting date: 17 December 2020
    Will you consider making it a grant condition of receiving Approved Provider and Strategic Partner status during the 2021-26 Affordable Housing Programme that associations should follow the National Housing Federation’s recommendation of only selling social rent voids at Existing Use Value Social Housing to councils or other providers, to retain social rent stock; reduce homelessness, and boroughs’ cost for temporary accommodation?