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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether a contract has been signed for unsafe cladding remediation work on Sesame apartments in Battersea.

The Department has awarded £6.1 million of funding to remediate unsafe cladding on Sesame Apartments but the building owner is yet to sign and return the grant funding agreement. Building owners have a legal responsibility to make their buildings safe, even where the government is funding the cladding remediation costs. We have engaged with building owners and managing agents on the terms of the funding agreement which are fair, proportionate and accurately reflect the implementation of the Building Safety Act. The owner of Sesame Apartments must act now to fix the buildings and if they do not we will support regulators in taking enforcement action.