Speeches by Powell.

“Very quickly, just for clarity. You feel that there is consensus on unincorporated associations, transparency over who is donating and requiring permissibility checks if they are a regular donor. Is that right? Those would be the two things where you feel like—”

“I told IPSA.”

“Joe Powell, Kensington and Bayswater.”

“Regardless of what that statement said?”

“I am interested in views on whether or not there should be a cap, but if you were to have a cap, you would need some of this transparency to implement it because otherwise you would not know necessarily where the money is coming from. That is for Duncan and anyone else who wants to address the cap.”

“On companies specifically, you referenced the idea that they have a British personality, a stake in the British economy. One of the proposals that has been suggested is you could tie the amount a company can donate to its British activity, whether that is profit in the UK or some other measure. Do you think that could …”

“At the moment you could be a foreign millionaire, billionaire and put money through an unincorporated association and there would be no requirement to report who that person is or to check whether they are a permissible donor?”

“On the first category of unincorporated associations, is there anything that would stop us requiring for unincorporated associations the permissibility checks that are required for donations that come regularly to political parties?”

“So you do not have any of that yet.”

“Thank you, Chair. My opening question is for Giles: how confident are you that the new remediation action plan will deliver for the residents that you have been campaigning with?”

“I have a question on the code of practice for the remediation of residential buildings, which was discussed in the previous session. How are you assessing whether that is fit for purpose, and whether leaseholders and others are getting the improved communication that you expect? How are you monitoring that? You heard t…”

“But it is not delaying—”

“The building safety levy was mentioned earlier, and its implementation is coming later this year. I have a question for councillor Hug—I represent two wards of Westminster, to make that clear. What preparation have you made? Are there challenges that you foresee in collecting the levy, because it will be on local autho…”

“Obviously, we cannot speak for the Metropolitan police investigation and the CPS. We know that they will be considering whether these companies should be charged, but that is separate; that is not a factor in delaying the Government’s approach to securing compensation from the product manufacturers.”

“I think there is huge public interest in this. Is the delay on holding those product manufacturers to account from a financial perspective? What is behind the delay? You heard the developers earlier saying that they feel like they are the main ones that have been asked to pay in. Significant responsibility for this cri…”

“What is your strategy for securing compensation payments from those product manufacturers?”

“Including local government?”

“Of all the different parts of industry we have talked about, the one that has yet to pay anything in is the manufacturers of non-compliant products. The remediation plan says that the Prime Minister has made it clear and written to the companies. At the moment, you are not aware of any national Government contracts tha…”

“Before we went down the insurance track, my previous supplementary question was about speed. You mentioned the mayoral teams that have been set up. Clearly, a lot of the discussion we have been having is about how you get down to a building-by-building discussion and force agreement where that has not happened for too …”

“On your last point, you are considering a Government-backed insurance scheme if the premiums do not come down, as we have with flooding, aren’t you?”