Email your MP about the transfer of the Building Safety Regulator, BSR

The Public and Commercial Services Union, PCS believe it is wrong that MHCLG as the Department responsible for driving the Governments mission led approach to housing, should also be expected to oversee regulation of the building industry. There needs to be a much clearer separation of function to provide true assurance that regulation will be effective.

Furthermore, it is wrong that the body transferring out of HSE, the BSR, will become a non-Crown Non-Departmental Public Body of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). PCS was notified of this on the 6th of November. The proposed date of the transfer is yet to be confirmed, and the Statutory Instrument was laid on the 11th of November.

No one has explained why the decision to classify the BSR as a non-Crown body was made. PCS objects to this. There are other regulators and public bodies that have retained Crown status, so why not in this case?

As the new body will be established as a non-Crown NDPB, the transfer is expected to be affected through a Staff Transfer Scheme in accordance with COSOP. Those employees who are currently assigned to the work that is transferring are expected to transfer to the new body, maintaining their continuity of service, however their terms and conditions of employment are under threat.

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