Willmott Dixon blasts new Building Safety law

Willmott Dixon boss Rick Willmott has blasted the Government for making the industry a scapegoat for years of regulatory failure over building safety.
He said the Building Safety Act had laid the blame on developers, contractors and their supplychain rather than accepting the role successive Governments, their regulators and agents had played in creating the building safety crisis.
Willmott spoke out as he revealed the privately-owned building group had almost doubled to £61m its provision