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Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
I want to ask John Marr and Mervyn Skeet a bit more about the cladding assurance register. You might have touched on this, but I want to bottom it out a bit. How confident are you that the mortgage lenders—in your case, John—will accept the building’s entry on the cladding assurance register as proof that a property is free from significant fire safety defects? Will borrowers and residents be able to access financial products at a general market rate?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
I think that you have a couple more questions to ask, Stephanie.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
That is very helpful.
Phil Diamond, have you been able to engage?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
If the ability to go into the building to remediate all those things that you listed had been in place as part of the pilot, you would have gone ahead with that to demonstrate a whole experience of a building being completely remediated. Is that the idea?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
That has been a helpful opening discussion on the scope of the bill and what it includes and what it does not include. Some interesting points have emerged.
We will move on to questions from Willie Coffey.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
I am getting confused. We talked earlier about the scope of the bill, and now we are talking about PAS and whether that is what we would want to use. Does PAS just look at fire safety? Earlier we were talking about the need to look at cladding in order to move that forward, and now we are talking about PAS, which looks at the whole fire safety of a building. Am I getting that right?
Do we want to use PAS to look at the whole building, but use the triage approach that Phil Diamond suggested to get on with the cladding part of it, while we understand that there are other pieces that we might need to come back and do? Could you explain a bit more?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
Will you say a little more about the difference between data capture and a survey?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
That might be taken offline and discussed a bit further. However, it also sounds as though you have tested the proof of the pudding, having gone through some of that difficulty, so that may be helpful.
I go back to Marie McNair, for her next question.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
Stephanie Callaghan has a brief supplementary question.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
Thank you. Miles Briggs will ask the final questions.