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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 131061, on Buildings: Insulation, whether he has plans to bring forward proposals in the Building Safety Bill to ensure that leaseholders who are buy-to-let landlords do not pay remediation costs to remove and replace (a) unsafe cladding and (b) non-cladding related fire safety defects, such as defective fire doors, firebreaks and balconies.

We are clear that building owners and industry should make buildings safe without passing on costs to leaseholders, and leaseholders living in their own medium and high-rise buildings should not have to pay to remediate historic cladding defects that are no fault of their own. We will explore whether this support should extend to other leaseholders, such as buy-to-let landlords. We are also bringing forth statutory protections in the Building Safety Bill to ensure leaseholders are protected.