Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:46 pm on 16 November 2022.
Clearly, the Grenfell fire illustrated a failure of building regulations and a failure of enforcement, which all public bodies and private contractors have to bear some responsibility for. It's really unedifying that different contractors are still squabbling over who is responsible and, meanwhile, leaseholders are left in a completely impossible situation.
The Welsh Government has been endeavouring to engage with all the contractors who were involved in building these high-rise buildings in Wales, and it would be useful to know how many have yet to comply with that offer. I appreciate the partnership approach that the Welsh Government is taking, but the question has to be: what do we do about those who simply want to try and avoid their responsibilities and are sitting on their hands and not rectifying the buildings they built, which have been inadequately constructed?
I want to know on the specifics whether the Welsh Government notifies developers when you do a digital survey, and how fast we can expect Welsh Government to move from digital to physical surveys where there are particular issues, particularly of denial. If you do notify developers, are they then the ones charged to notify tenants of the work that the Welsh Government has done, or does the Welsh Government notify tenants directly? If not, how on earth do leaseholders know what's happening if potential rogue developers are simply denying leaseholders the information that they, obviously, are entitled to?