Social Housing and Building Safety

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:28 pm on 9 June 2022.

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Photo of Hilary Benn Hilary Benn Labour, Leeds Central 12:28, 9 June 2022

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. On the point she just addressed, there are leaseholders living in buildings who have looked to what the Secretary of State says about wanting to make those responsible pay but who still do not know who was involved. Often there is a network of companies; some may have disappeared or taken new names but still have the same directors and so on. Would it not be helpful if the Government were to write to the leaseholders in all those buildings setting out what information they currently have about the willingness of those involved in the construction of the building to cough up for the unsafe flats they constructed?