Building Safety Regulator
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Building Safety Regulator.
Answered by Samantha Dixon
The Building Safety Regulator is now operating as an arm’s-length body under MHCLG, with greater operational flexibility and clearer accountability.
The Department and the Building Safety Regulator have implemented a substantial programme of operational improvements to increase throughput of applications and reduce delays. These initially focused on new build applications but are now being extended to remediation cases.
New build applications are now being approved, on average, within 22 weeks by the Innovation Unit, reduced from 37 weeks in July 2025.
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