| Heading: |
Property Development: Licensing |
| Question ID: |
1816088 |
| UIN: |
62485 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5250 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Gideon Amos
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Gideon Amos
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of licensing building companies. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-02 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4631 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sarah Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
LabourSJ
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@LabourSJ
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| Answer text: |
The Grenfell Inquiry recommended that principal contractors wanting to work on higher-risk buildings should need a licence, which would be managed by the construction regulator. It also recommended that when applying for building control approval for thes... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |