Fire Safety and Cladding

I am grateful to my hon. Friend and neighbour for her intervention. It is telling that Shurgard s...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising this important issue in the Chamber. Like the constituents...

I completely agree and am grateful for that intervention. Everybody who uses self-storage facilit...

I thank my hon. Friend for securing this debate. He has picked up on a crucial point—that the sto...

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention and completely agree with her. I hope that when t...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing this issue to the House. It is important that evaluations...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, with which I have great sympathy. I believe that in ...

My hon. Friend is making a strong point that—I am sure he will come on to this—applies as much to...

My hon. Friend makes an important point indeed. I am also interested in the insurance aspects of ...

My hon. Friend is giving way generously. On that terrible point, last weekend I met some people w...

I am grateful again to my hon. Friend for her intervention. One really cannot exaggerate the pain...

At the meeting with customers last weekend, they made two really interesting points. One was that...

I am sure many people who keep their possessions in such self-storage centres will be astonished ...

I thank my hon. Friend, who is being generous with his time, for giving way once again. He rightl...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention. I completely agree: the leaseholders seem t...

It very clear—the Government have made this clear—that leaseholders should not be left footing th...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I know that he is fighting very hard on...

My hon. Friend is making a very powerful and moving speech. I am sure that his constituents are i...

I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention. I, too, look forward to hearing a resp...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on his speech and the argument he is making. It has long been argue...

I am grateful for that helpful intervention and look forward to hearing the Minister’s response.<...

I mentioned Lakanal House, where six people died 10 years ago, yesterday. There was combustible m...

I agree with my hon. Friend. It is absolutely extraordinary that we are not looking, right now, a...

I am quite happy to intervene, and I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. It should be clear that i...

As I will come on to say during what remains of this debate, a partial ban is not a ban. This kin...

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I will take an intervention in a moment, but I want to make this point, because it is linked to t...

We went through this yesterday during the urgent question. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is ...

I have to say, with all due respect to the Minister, that I find that comment rather complacent. ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. I apologise for missing the start of his speech, ...

I absolutely agree. The level of stress that this is causing is making some people so ill that th...

I am sorry to keep intervening—my hon. Friend is being incredibly generous—but I just want to mak...

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention. As the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again and for mentioning the problem at Northp...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention; he makes an important point well. The o...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; he is being very generous and making an excellent speech. ...

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention, and she is absolutely right. I have seen previou...

My hon. Friend is getting to the fundamentals of the issues. Let me give an example. I met a bunc...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the important point that he has made. He has emphasised that ...

My hon. Friend makes incredibly powerful points that must be taken seriously. Does he agree that ...

I agree with my hon. Friend. It is critical that that happens so that we can understand what went...

One justification for not having sprinklers in schools is that it is easy to vacate a building. H...

I look forward to the Minister’s response, but I agree completely agree with my hon. Friend.

Before I call the next speaker, I must inform the House of an error in calculating the number of ...

I am grateful for the time that has become available to make some brief remarks, although my hon....

In all the assessments we make or have made around the ban on combustible cladding, we are guided...

With respect to the Minister, he may be listening to what he wants to hear. He should listen to a...

I want to reiterate what I said yesterday. I agreed with whoever it was who questioned me that it...

I find the Minister’s attitude astonishingly complacent. I am a member of the all-party group on ...

When it comes to the question of complacency and how much confidence we have in the system, I sho...

My hon. Friend has made a telling point. We will not find things that are wrong unless we go and ...

I completely agree with my hon. Friend’s point about the cladding manufacturers seeking better re...

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—which have allowed a particular cladding to be enriched with a particular form of insulation, th...

I think that the Minister was trying to intervene on an intervention. I am glad to see that he at...

Let me again correct the record. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was absent in December,...

I am grateful for that “intervention”. I think that the Minister was using me as a kind of Ouija ...

We are not short of time.

Returning to the central point, what we all want is the Government to take a comprehensive view o...

The announcements fail to recognise that most schools are not particularly high. I do not underst...

Absolutely; and if the Minister did not like us quoting commercial companies in this way, perhaps...

What I said yesterday was that it was very often the case with buildings of the ’60s and ’70s tha...

I will not be tempted into a wider debate, except to say to the Minister that it depends very muc...

Order. This is an important debate, and it is true that we are not short of time, but before I ca...

I was not going to speak, but given that we have more time than we anticipated, I shall make a fe...

I commend the hon. Member for Croydon North (Mr Reed), notwithstanding his partial recitation of ...

The Minister talks about the ban for residential blocks over 18 metres high. What evidence does h...

The hon. Gentleman is right to raise that issue, which the expert panel has obviously considered....

Hotels!

Exactly. Although the hon. Gentleman is right to say that people sleep overnight in hotels, staff...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way again and for saying that he is keeping an open mind...

I am happy to review the panel, but I have confidence in its members and the advice that they are...

Will the Minister address one specific point? We have seen the conversion of a lot of office buil...

Buildings that have already been converted and are within scope should have been part of the loca...

May I ask the Minister again to look into reviewing whether to put schools on to the building saf...

I am certainly happy to investigate that issue but, as I say, one of the delineations that the ex...

I take all the points the Minister makes in a generous spirit, but parents clearly would not want...

As I have said, the Department for Education has conducted an exercise in which buildings have be...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wish to correct today’s record. Earlier, when the mo...

I thank the hon. Lady for her point of order and for giving me prior notice of it. I think that s...