The Building Safety Fund

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 21 September 2022.

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Photo of Jane Dodds Jane Dodds Liberal Democrat 1:39, 21 September 2022

May I extend my best wishes to the Minister for Climate Change, who I know can't be here today, and thank you for taking the questions? I just want to echo the concerns of my colleague Rhys ab Owen in relation to the fire that happened recently. A fire is a fire. However it started, the concerns were that it could have spread and we could have ended up in a terrible situation, as was Grenfell five years ago. There are many aspects to this and I just wanted to pick on one, if I may. Many homeowners have taken developers themselves to court. Those developers have told the Welsh Government that they will, of course, make good their properties and abide by the developer agreement. We know that people cannot afford to just sit and wait, both physically, in terms of their own safety, and emotionally as well, with the stress that they're under. We know that there are six developers, who have been named, who are yet to engage in the list that was published in July. I just wondered, in the interests of transparency, whether you can commit to publishing a list of which developers have agreed to sign that developer agreement, which have refused or nor engaged, and what the consequences could be. Thank you. Diolch yn fawr iawn.