Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Written Statement of 11 December 2018, HCWS1169 on Contingent Liability for the Joint Inspection Team, when the Joint Inspection Taskforce was originally due to be operational; and whether that taskforce is now fully operational.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Local Government Association (LGA) who host the Joint Inspection Team has recruited all key members of the Team. They are engaging with local authorities who have sought their support in dealing with the remediation of private sector high rise residential building with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Written Statement of 11 December 2018, HCWS1169 on Contingent Liability for the Joint Inspection Team, whether that contingent liability will cover work to remove dangerous non-ACM cladding.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The contingent liability set out in the Written Statement of 11 December 2018, HCWS1169, for the Joint Inspection Team does not cover work to remove non-ACM cladding.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 249217 on High Rise Flats: Insulation, how much of that £259 million has been allocated to (a) housing associations and (b) other registered providers; and whether he holds information on the amount allocated to registered providers by the local authority where their blocks are located.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Of the £259 million that has been allocated, £123 million has been allocated to housing associations and £136.4 million has been allocated to local authorities.
The table below shows total approved costs by building location. Due to public safety considerations, five local authority areas have not been specifically named as this could lead to the disclosure of individual buildings.
Local authority area | Approved Funding |
Barking and Dagenham | £0.6m |
Barnet | £6m |
Brent | £21.7m |
Calderdale | £1.7m |
Cambridge | £0.1m |
Camden | £80.6m |
Croydon | £1m |
Hackney | £2.1m |
Hammersmith and Fulham | £0.4m |
Haringey | £10m |
Havering | £0.8m |
Hillingdon | £0.4m |
Islington | £5.6m |
Lambeth | £20.2m |
Manchester | £7.2m |
Newham | £3.6m |
Norwich | £1.9m |
Plymouth | £11.8m |
Portsmouth | £1.2m |
Reading | £2.1m |
Salford | £10.2m |
Sandwell | £1m |
Sefton | £2.5m |
Sheffield | £3.9m |
Southwark | £8.2m |
Stockton on Tees | £2.4m |
Sunderland | £0.4m |
Tower Hamlets | £12.1m |
Trafford | £4.8m |
Wandsworth | £16.5m |
Westminster | £6.7m |
Other (5 Local Authority Areas) | £11.4m |
Total | £259.4m |
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he made of the (a) number of blocks, (b) cost per block and 9c) cost per dwelling when calculating the £200 million private sector cladding remediation fund.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Government has announced its commitment to fully fund the remediation of private sector high-rise residential blocks with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding, except where a warranty claim is accepted. The fund will cover reasonable costs associated with the removal and replacement of unsafe ACM cladding systems on all eligible buildings and the estimated cost is £200 million. A number of building owners and developers including Taylor Wimpey, Legal & General, Mace Group, Lendlease, Barratt Developments and Aberdeen Standard Investments have agreed to maintain their commitment to fund remediation and will not draw on the fund.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which housing associations have been allocated funding as part of the £400 million cladding remediation fund for social sector blocks; and how much each such association has been allocated.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
To date, MHCLG has approved £123 million of funding to 33 housing association building owners.
The table below shows total approved costs to housing associations. Due to public safety considerations, 14 housing associations have not been specifically named as this could lead to the disclosure of individual buildings.
Housing Association | Approved Funding |
Clarion Housing Group | £0.8m |
Hyde Housing Association | £3.8m |
Origin Housing | £1m |
Poplar HARCA | £0.3m |
Tower Hamlets Community Housing | £2.4m |
Catalyst Housing Limited | £8.8m |
Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association | £2.1m |
Network Homes | £17.8m |
One Housing Group | £2.6m |
One Vision Housing | £2.5m |
Optivo | £0.3m |
Thirteen Group | £2.4m |
Together Housing | £1.7m |
Gentoo Group | £0.4m |
London and Quadrant Housing Trust | £1.8m |
Newlon Housing Trust | £7.7m |
Notting Hill Genesis | £4.2m |
Peabody | £1.6m |
Salix Homes | £8m |
Other (14 HAs) | £45.6m |
Total | £123m |
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his Answer of 20 May 2019 to Question 254194, how many of the 175 high-rise private sector residential buildings identified with aluminium composite cladding are owned by developers who have agreed not to draw on the fund.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
A number of developers and freeholders have already agreed to fund the costs of remediation and not pass these on to leaseholders. Following the announcement of the fund many of these have agreed to maintain their commitment. The owners or developers who have made these commitments include Taylor Wimpey, Legal and General, Mace Group, Lendlease, Barratt Developments and Aberdeen Standard Investments. We are continuing to engage with other buildings owners to secure further commitments to fund remediation without accessing the Government’s remediation fund.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 249217 on High Rise Flats: Insulation, how many dwellings are contained in the 140 social sector buildings.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The 140 social sector buildings that have been allocated funding contain approximately 10,300 dwellings.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's monthly Building Safety Programme data release, if he will publish the data in Table 3 (Appendix 2) by parliamentary constituency.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The table below sets out parliamentary constituency areas with high-rise residential buildings and publicly-owned buildings that are yet to be remediated – these areas are grouped into bands. The bands used are; one to five buildings, six to ten buildings, 11 to 20 buildings, and more than 20 buildings. The buildings included all have Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations and are either residential buildings over 18 metres tall or publicly-owned buildings.
As of 30 April there are 102 parliamentary constituencies in England where such buildings were identified, of which 84 constituencies have at least one such building yet to be remediated within their boundaries.
Constituencies with fewer than ten high-rise residential buildings (regardless of whether or not they have cladding) have been removed from the table below, as their inclusion could lead to the identification of one or more buildings with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations in these areas – hence 70 constituencies are listed below.
Number of buildings with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations yet to be remediated, by parliamentary constituency England, 30 April 2019 | ||
(a) Constituencies with 1 to 5 buildings with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations yet to be remediated | ||
Barking | Esher and Walton | Norwich South |
Bedford | Feltham and Heston | Nottingham South |
Bermondsey and Old Southwark | Finchley and Golders Green | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport |
Birmingham, Ladywood | Gateshead | Poole |
Blackley and Broughton | Gillingham and Rainham | Portsmouth North |
Bootle | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Portsmouth South |
Bournemouth West | Hammersmith | Putney |
Bradford West | Harrow West | Reading East |
Brent Central | Hayes and Harlington | Sheffield Central |
Brent North | Hemel Hempstead | Shipley |
Brentford and Isleworth | Hendon | Slough |
Bristol West | Holborn and St Pancras | Stockton North |
Camberwell and Peckham | Hornsey and Wood Green | Streatham |
Cambridge | Huddersfield | Stretford and Urmston |
Chelsea and Fulham | Kensington | Sutton and Cheam |
Croydon Central | Leicester South | Vauxhall |
Croydon North | Lewisham, Deptford | Wimbledon |
Ealing Central and Acton | Manchester, Gorton | Wolverhampton North East |
Ealing, Southall | Newcastle upon Tyne Central |
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(b) Constituencies with 6 to 10 buildings with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations yet to be remediated | ||
Battersea | Leeds Central | Tottenham |
Islington South and Finsbury | Liverpool, Riverside | Westminster North |
(c) Constituencies with 11 to 20 buildings with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations yet to be remediated | ||
Bethnal Green and Bow | Hampstead and Kilburn | Salford and Eccles |
Cities of London and Westminster | Manchester Central | West Ham |
(d) Constituencies with over 20 buildings with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations yet to be remediated | ||
Greenwich and Woolwich | Poplar and Limehouse |
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Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has received confirmation from all the local authorities listed in Table 3 (Appendix 2) of his Department's monthly Building Safety Programme: Monthly Data Release that residents in all the buildings with aluminium composite material cladding systems unlikely to meet building regulations in their local authority area have been made aware that their building contains such cladding.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Building owners are responsible for ensuring residents are informed of fire safety issues in their buildings. We are engaging with building owners, managing agents, local authorities and others to ensure that remediation happens as quickly as possible, and that interim safety measures are in place in all buildings until the cladding is replaced.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the the number of dwellings in the 108 social sector residential blocks with ACM cladding that are still awaiting remediation; and in which regions those residential blocks are located.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The latest information on number of dwellings in social sector high-rise residential buildings with Aluminium Composite Material cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations that are yet to be remediated were published in the April Building Safety Programme Data Release on 9 May 2019.
Our ongoing quality checks have identified an error in the figure published in the April Data Release. This has now been corrected in the published Data Release in line with our published Revisions Policy.
The updated figure from 30 April 2019 is that approximately 8,400 dwellings in 108 social sector high-rise residential buildings with Aluminium Composite Material cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations are yet to be remediated.
The regional breakdown is in the table below:
Region | Number of dwellings |
London | 4,600 |
North West | 2,500 |
South East | 400 |
South West | 300 |
North East | 200 |
East of England | 200 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 100 |
Total | 8,400 |
The figures in this table have been rounded to the nearest 100 independently which explains why the sum of the rows does not equal the total.