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17 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1233)

So that is still up in the air?

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17 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1233)

Are you a statutory consultee on those kinds of applications? Is there an obligation on local authorities to come to you when an application like that comes before them, or is it just “If they feel the need to”?

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17 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1233)

On the work you are doing with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and local authorities on the planning system, what is the challenge there, and what is your role in helping to fix that?

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17 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1233)

I have. I am going to ask about creating more places. You have already mentioned a project that is happening in London, but I am really keen to understand, Gila, what the Department is doing to incentivise all providers to create more residential homes in the geographic locations where they are needed. We have had some

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

Just to clarify, the wording that you are using will not actively discourage people from coming forward because they do not think they have a problem, will it?

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

How would they know that they have a problem? In some instances, it won’t have presented itself yet.

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

So if you are in front of this Committee in 18 months’ time, most of this will have been resolved by then.

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

It won’t have fixed it.

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

But that is just to identify them.

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

How long do you think it is going to take to identify and fix this? What is the timescale that you are currently guesstimating? I appreciate that it can only be a guesstimate.

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

If it is concentrated in specific parts of the country, does that mean that you intend to use local media as well as part of that?

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13 Nov 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill

The right hon. Member will know from his own constituency that there are some fantastic campaigners trying to protect chalk streams. In my patch, I have the River Chess Association, the Mend the Misbourne project, and the Chiltern Society. Does he agree that it should not be down to committed campaigners to protect the

housingenvironmentlocal-government
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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

How would those households know that they should get in touch? Are you proactively contacting them?

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

Is that one letter? Is it a phone call? How proactive are you being?

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

I would like to move us on to the Government’s plans to fix the faulty installations. Figure 10 of the Report shows an estimate that over 30,000 homes have major issues still to be remediated. Clive and Deborah, how will the Department scale up the operation to identify and fix those homes with major issues that still

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

Why didn’t it?

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

My question is, why didn’t the system work? I do not think I am going to get an answer.

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

What is your organisation’s role in that? If you can hold those certification bodies to account, how do you do that?

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

Given that, earlier you said that the system did not function as designed and that you believed that you had fulfilled your role as an accreditation body, but that you can hold those certification bodies to account. I think that is what you said earlier. How is it possible that those certification bodies conducted the

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13 Nov 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1229)

Earlier, you mentioned having meetings with officials in the Department as early as 2022. There is a two-year gap there.

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