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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many residential buildings in the UK require the removal of combustible cladding; and what estimate he has made of the cost of that removal.

The information on combustible cladding for all blocks of flats is not held. However, section 11 of the Building Safety Bill: Impact Assessment estimates the average costs per building for addressing safety remediation in high rise buildings and the estimated proportion of high-rise buildings that will require remediation by type of remediation required. These estimates consider all necessary remediation, which goes beyond façade remediation.

The Department publishes regular data on the identification and remediation progress of high-rise residential and publicly owned buildings in England with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet building regulations. The latest data is available here.