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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on which local authorities have not met their duty under the s3 of the Housing Act 2004 to keep housing conditions in their area under review with a view to identifying any action that may need to be taken, with respect to the testing of high-rise buildings with suspected unsafe cladding.

We have been working with local authorities to identify private sector residential buildings over 18 metres with potentially unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding.

We believe we have identified all ACM-clad social housing over 18 metres in England.

To support the identification of private sector residential buildings over 18 metres with potentially unsafe ACM cladding, on 17 I issued a direction to all local housing authorities to pay particular regard to cladding-related issues when reviewing housing in their areas. The direction can be found at:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/707813/Direction_to_local_authority_chief_executives_17_May_2018.pdf

The Government will fully fund the removal and replacement of potentially dangerous ACM cladding on buildings over 18 metres owned by social landlords, with costs estimated at £400 million.