Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 8 May 2007.
Yvette Cooper
Minister of State (Department of Communities and Local Government) (Housing and Planning)
2:30,
8 May 2007
The issue of enforcement is important, and that is why we have introduced pressure testing as part of the new standards introduced last year. The standards that were in place before April last year were not sufficiently well enforced, and we have been working on a major training programme to increase enforcement and ensure that the current standards are properly implemented.