b'costs, but they are worried they might get a bill for 40k.Particularly in the pandemic, weve had a couple of leaseholders take their own lives, because they were isolated and everything had got too much for them. (Interviewee 1)What a disaster.It has in effect stopped the market in its tracks. You cannot get an EWS1 done. Its about 7000 per home, the number of people who can get the insurance to do properly it are limited.Weve got people calling up on a daily basis in tears because they cant sell their home. (Interviewee 4)Interviewees said that there were not enough qualified surveyors to meet the demand for inspections:There are less than 300 inspectors in the entire country that can issue the certificates, and the number is reducing because their insurers are saying they dont want to insure one person thats doing 10% of the sectors stuff, so theyre putting restrictions on it. So the pool is getting smaller. (Interviewee 1)Insurers had removed insurance from surveyors, limiting how many inspections they can undertake. Providers expressed frustration, stating that lenders were requesting EWS1 forms for properties where they were technically not required. Although no lenders interviewed reported this being the case, they expressed equal frustration with the current situation. A lack of testing capacity in the country was also deemed to be slowing the inspection process down:I think they only have two or three test facilities. Unless the wall system has been tested before, they then have to do a fire regulations test. So if you have a combination of a wall system that hasnt been tested, and there are thousands of combinations of wall systems you could have, youd have to get it done and youre in a queue. (Interviewee 1)Both providers and lenders commented that the checks had become more in depth and more intrusive:Youre not going to find a fire safety engineer with a valid liability insurance prepared to sign off on those forms without opening up the building and carrying out investigations. (Interviewee 3)Beyond the investigative inspections, there were concerns about the nature and scale of required remediation works and how these would be paid for, and the impact on existing 21'