Fifth report: Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Building Safety Bill
Select Committee
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
HC 466
24 November 2020
Government Response (AI assessment · 76 of 76 classified)
Accepted
36
Acknowledged
12
Deferred
2
Rejected
13
Government response
Building Safety Bill: Government response to pre-legislative scrutiny by the Select Committee · published 7 Jul 2021
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
51
Recommendation
Deferred
Para 159
The Government must announce before the Bill is published whether it intends to adopt the...
Recommendation
The Government must announce before the Bill is published whether it intends to adopt the competency framework for the role of building safety manager proposed in the report from Working Group 8. If it does not, it must publish with …
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Government Response Summary
The government intends to publish further detail on key elements of the new regime, including the competence framework for building safety managers, during the passage of the Bill rather than before its publication as recommended.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Conclusion
Deferred
Para 194
We are not persuaded that third-party certification alone would provide the transparency and accountability that...
Conclusion
We are not persuaded that third-party certification alone would provide the transparency and accountability that we and the Hackitt report have previously recommended and still believe that details of test failures and re-run tests should also be made publicly available.
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Government Response Summary
The government agrees that third-party certification alone is insufficient for transparency and accountability, and has announced an independent review into testing, deferring action until its findings are considered.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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