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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of making additional funding available to increase the rate of the replacement of dangerous cladding.

The Government has made £1.6 billion of public funding available for the remediation of unsafe cladding on high rise residential buildings to make homes safer, quicker. In addition to funding the removal of unsafe cladding, Government is also providing expert technical and pre-tender financial support for successful fund applicants.

Building owners should also explore every opportunity to fund this work via those originally responsible for the defects and warranty claims before seeking Government funding or passing on costs to their leaseholders. We are committed to reviewing demand for the Building Safety Fund and are doing so as evidence of demand becomes clearer from the application process.