Watch: Select Committee questions to Michael Gove MP

Today at the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee, I questioned Secretary of State Michael Gove on the Government’s shameful lack of action on serious housing issues.

I asked him:

1. When remediation works to remove all dangerous cladding and to fix safety defects from high-rise residential buildings will be completed nationally?

2. Why has the Government rejected a key recommendation from Phase One of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry to require personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs) for disabled people in high-rise buildings?

3. Whether an equality impact assessment, and an assessment of consequences and risks to the availability of social housing, has been made of the Government’s policy to extend Right to Buy?

There is a real risk that this policy could reduce the stock of social housing, which we desperately need more of. I also asked Mr Gove why, on the fifth anniversary of Grenfell, were more than 650,000 people - many children - STILL living in flats that could burn at any moment.

You can watch a video clip of me questioning Michael Gove during this Select Committee session below: