To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on the reform of building regulations to include Changing Places toilets in all future plans for public buildings.

Officials in my Department’s Building Standards Branch are finalising research to inform the work of a technical sub-committee of the local Building Regulations Advisory Committee that is currently being established to scope out proposals for wider stakeholder consultation. Christine McClements, the mother of a child with severe disabilities, who has extensive knowledge as a Civil Engineer and user of Changing Places Toilets, has already agreed to join the sub-committee. We are seeking other members with the relevant expertise from representative organisations and industry. Draft proposals could be agreed and ready for wider consultation sometime in the spring of 2021.