Buildings: Safety
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the scope of the Building Safety Levy to include all parties responsible for the (a) planning, (b) design, (c) construction and (d) insurance of unsafe buildings.
Answered by Alex Norris
This Government will put a renewed focus on ensuring those responsible for the building safety crisis pay to put it right. The Building Safety Levy will be charged on building control applications for the purpose of meeting building safety expenditure, ensuring that those responsible pay to put it right, whilst the burden of paying for fixing historical building safety defects does not fall on leaseholders or further burden taxpayers.
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