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Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 December 2025

Debate

Gateway 3 New-build Applications

Contribution

The noble Baroness is quite right to point to the balance we need here. I can do no better than to quote Andy Roe, who said that “the BSR remains firmly committed to its core mission: keeping residents and their homes safe. Life-safety critical defects cannot be ignored and improvements to efficiency cannot be pursued at the expense of rigour”. So we must get the balance right here: we have to speed up these processes and get them working properly for the industry, but we must also make sure that, in doing that, we do not relax at all on the very clear standards we must have to keep buildings safe.

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