As I understand it, the difficulty is that a claim would need to be made on behalf of leaseholders by their landlord, who would insist on indemnity funding. The Minister and his advisers should get together with the Law Officers to find a practical way to ensure that claims to have a prospect of getting people to pay up, rather than people trying to resist. After Tony Pidgley sadly died, the new bosses resisted paying up to put right the defects in the Worcester Park block. That situation needs to be challenged.
Building Safety Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Peter Bottomley
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 20 April 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Building Safety Bill.
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