Julie James: Thank you, Janet. The 'intent to sign' part is merely that the companies in question have to get the permission of holding company boards. We have letters saying they intend to sign. It is actually worth the paper it's written on, and I do expect them to sign formally very shortly. But they have to go through a board process in order to do that. So, that just is what it is. But they are...
Julie James: Thanks very much for that series of questions. In terms of other buildings, do you mean buildings under 11m? Is that what you meant? Yes. We aren't doing anything about that at the moment, because we need to make sure that those in the higher risk buildings, who are the ones who would have most difficulty in escaping, for example, are remediated first. Once we've done that, we will turn our...
Julie James: Thank you, Mike. I will write back to you on the very specific points you made. It's worth doing that because I think it's more of a detailed answer than here. But just to be really clear, buildings that don't have anybody responsible left for them standing—so, the developer and everybody else has gone out of business; Carillion is a very good example of that—will, as long as they've put...
Julie James: Thank you very much, Jane Dodds, for that set of questions. The last one first. We can't interfere in existing court proceedings; we just can't. So, if there's an existing court proceeding, that will have to see its route through the courts. I have absolutely no detail in front of me about which court proceedings are which, or what stage they're at, or any of the legal arguments you'd need to...
Julie James: Thank you very much for that. That last question is just an impossibility to answer at this point in time. What we need is a properly set out pipeline, if you like, of work, so that we have all of the skilled people that we can get our hands on in Wales doing the work at the right level, to the right spec, with the right supply chain. I absolutely cannot say how long that will take. As I...
Julie James: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you, Rhys, for the opportunity to discuss again the important issue of building safety in Wales. Just yesterday I made a statement on a series of actions we are taking as part of the Welsh building safety programme, together with our co-operation partners, Plaid Cymru. There were six strands to that update, including our work in making developers responsible...
Julie James: Well, you said—
Julie James: Actually, you said yesterday—. You can check the Record, if you like. Maybe you didn't mean it, but what you said yesterday was really not very acceptable. Check it yourself. Let us not forget that Grenfell itself was a social sector property. I think it's actually quite important to remember that. Yesterday, I updated the Senedd on progress that has been made in addressing fire safety...
Julie James: Apologies. Can you not hear me?
Julie James: Apologies, Llywydd. Give me one second. I seem to be having an ICT problem. Give me one second. Apologies.
Julie James: There we go. Sorry. Apologies, Llywydd.
Julie James: Diolch, Llywydd. I do move the motion. This is a UK Bill intended to reform the regulation of social housing providers in England. I have called another debate today, because on 9 March, I laid a final supplementary LCM following additional amendments proposed by the UK Government shortly before our last debate. Today's debate and vote is in relation to giving legislative consent for the...
Julie James: Diolch, Llywydd. I very much want to thank Members who’ve contributed to the debate today, and indeed to reiterate my thanks to the Chairs for their scrutiny of the LCMs over the time. I know that John Griffiths was not able to do this last one, but I’m very grateful for the previous work that the committee has done. I would just like to say that I completely agree about the time limits...
