Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his oral contribution of 5 September 2017, Official Report, column 76, on Grenfell Tower, if he will publish details of the local authorities that have contacted his Department on funding for remedial work.

We have been contacted by thirty two local authorities and that seven of these are in the process of providing more detail after initial conversations. It is a matter for local authorities to communicate with their residents what work is being proposed, and as such I cannot release the details of specific local authorities.

We have been clear that we expect building owners to fund fire safety measures, but councils should contact us if they have any concerns about funding fire safety works. Where works are necessary to ensure the fire safety of a building, we will ensure that lack of financial resources will not prevent them going ahead.