High-rise Buildings: Safety Remediation

Lord Carter of Haslemere Excerpts

Monday 24th March 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab)]

My noble friend is right to point to the strains on social housing between remediation of all kinds of maintenance defects, including fire safety, and building new affordable housing. From April, we will increase targeted support for social landlords applying for government remediation funding. That will help them meet the costs of planning and preparing for remediation works, and to start remedial work sooner. Social landlords can apply for government remediation funding equivalent to the amount that would otherwise have been passed on to leaseholders, or for the full cost of the works where remediation would render a social landlord financially unviable. We have committed £568 million to support the remediation of social housing through government schemes.

[Lord Carter of Haslemere (CB)]

My Lords, the Public Accounts Committee points out that developers, social housing providers, landlords and owners—everyone, it seems, except the culpable manufacturers of this cladding—are being made to contribute to the costs of remediation. What is being done to ensure that the culpable manufacturers of this cladding will be made to contribute?