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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimates he has made of the financial costs to leaseholders in tower blocks as a result of incurring charges to (a) fund continuous waking watch fire patrols as a result of unsafe aluminium composite material cladding and (b) replace such cladding.

The cost of recladding a tower block and implementing interim fire safety measures varies significantly depending on the individual characteristics of the building.

My Department has made clear that it considers that building owners should take responsibility for funding fire safety measures including replacement of dangerous cladding. Government will consider financial flexibilities for local authorities who need to undertake essential fire safety work to make a building safe.