Building Safety Fund

(asked on 19th November 2020) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the May 2020 announcement that the Building Safety Fund will be distributed on a first come, first served basis, what steps he is taking to sort applications to replace unsafe cladding in rank order.


Answered by
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Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 24th November 2020

As set out in the Building Safety Fund Prospectus, the fund has a maximum value of £1 billion which will be available in the financial year 2020/21. As projects are approved for funding by MHCLG, sums will be allocated from the £1 billion until the total funding is spent. This will incentivise the pace we expect building owners to demonstrate in progressing these remediation projects. The Department will cease to accept full applications once funding allocations are forecast to achieve this value.? We are committed to reviewing demand for the scheme and are doing so as evidence of demand becomes clearer from the application process.

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