4.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: December 2020 4.2 The department will write to the Committee setting out specific steps to provide greater transparency for residents throughout the application and remediation process for the Building Safety Fund, and how it will encourage building owners to meet a standard of service when communicating with residents. It will explain how the Building Safety Bill will give residents a stronger voice in the system, ensuring their concerns about safety issues are not ignored. There will be increased opportunities for residents to have their say on decisions made about the safety of their building including through a new streamlined complaints route direct to the new regulator. Regarding residents’ costs, the government is providing £1.6 billion of public subsidy to ensure remediation happens at pace so residents’ homes are made safe for the long term and interim measures are no longer required. 4.3 However, understandably, many leaseholders are anxious about costs from interim measures, such as waking watch (overnight patrols to evacuate residents in case of fire). The department has been investigating steps to reduce waking watch costs. In October 2020, the department published data on these so there is transparency and cost comparisons can be clearly made. Additionally, the National Fire Chiefs Council has published updated guidance for buildings where ‘stay put’ advice has been suspended, emphasising these are short-term measures and encouraging greater use of more cost-effective measures such as alarm systems, to reduce dependency on waking watch wherever possible.