Oral Question·Department of Health and Social Care
“What recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the spread of covid-19 variants in the UK.”
Tabled: 27 May 2021Answered: 8 June 2021
Asked by
Rushanara Ali
Labour — Bethnal Green and Stepney
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Answer from Hansard
The Deputy Prime Minister
I thank my hon. Friend for her important question. Let me say from the outset that the pace of remediation has been too slow. I do take a personal lead: seven years on from the Grenfell Tower tragedy, it is unacceptable that so many buildings still have unsafe cladding. I am meeting developers, mayors, regulators and national building safety bodies to press the urgency of this work, and I will ensure that action is being taken to make homes safe.