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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the announcement of 10 February 2021, Government to bring an end to unsafe cladding with multi-billion pound intervention, whether the new scheme for buildings between 11 and 18 metres will cover fire safety issues beyond cladding.

The Government has rightly targeted funding at the removal of dangerous cladding to make homes safer, quicker – the costs for remediating this are high, and the risks posed by it are also high.

Lower-rise buildings between 11 and 18 metres, with a lower risk to safety, will gain new protection from the costs of cladding removal through a generous new financing scheme.

Between 11 and 18 metres the risk profile of buildings is different to taller buildings and will not always require the same level of remediation when risks are identified. However, we want to make sure the residents and leaseholders in these buildings also have peace of mind and financial certainty. Therefore, our financing scheme for these buildings will give them the confidence that remediation of dangerous cladding can take place, and leaseholders will not be asked to pay more than £50 a month towards it.