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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps he has taken to ensure that leaseholders do not bear the costs of remedial works when their managing agent or building owner is unsuccessful in their application for Building Safety Fund, in (a) Poplar and Limehouse constituency and (b) England.

The Building Safety Fund will cover the removal and replacement of unsafe non-ACM cladding systems on private and social sector high-rise residential buildings over 18m where building owners would not otherwise be able to do so at the pace required.

On May 26, Government announced the launch of the prospectus for the Building Safety Fund.??The prospectus sets out the buildings and non-ACM cladding systems that are eligible for funding. However, we do not expect Government funding to be the only means of remediating high-rise residential buildings with unsafe cladding systems.

We expect a significant proportion of the remediation of unsafe non-ACM cladding on these buildings to be funded by those responsible for the original work, through warrantees or by building owners and landlords who are able to pay for the remediation without passing on costs to leaseholders.

The department is investigating solutions to protect leaseholders, and will provide an update