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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May 2018, what definition of unsafe cladding will be used for the purposes of that programme.

Local authorities or housing associations who have already started or completed remediation work on Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding will be eligible for this funding, as well as those yet to undertake the work. We want to get funding to local authorities and housing associations as soon as possible, so that they can focus on the job of making their building safe. We will announce more details shortly about how councils and housing associations can apply for funding, including conditions attached to the grant.