Maintaining this building properly, making it safe and making it so it does not burn down is a very different thing from making it safe so it does not burn down while thousands of people work here. The majority of the fire incidents here are caused by issues with people, as are many of the safety issues. If we take the people out of the equation, it is significantly cheaper to do all that; if we only have disabled access visitor routes, we take away a huge amount of the risk that is created. We could rip out almost all the services that go up and down the vertical risers if we did not need to keep them because we need internet in office T306. Clearly, we would not need internet in office T306 if there was nobody working in this place.
Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster
Proceeding contribution from
Kirsty Blackman
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 12 July 2022.
It occurred during Debate on Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster.
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