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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the additional funding and loans to remove unsafe cladding announced on 10 February 2021 will be available to (a) non-resident leaseholders who are renting our their flats and (b) owner occupier leaseholders; and if he will make a statement.

The Government has announced a globally unprecedented investment in building safety and hundreds of thousands of leaseholders, including both non-resident and owner occupier leaseholders, will be protected from the cost of replacing unsafe cladding on their homes.

The Government will provide grant funding for removal of unsafe cladding on buildings over 18 metres. This generous scheme will also provide leaseholders in buildings of 11-18 metres with access to finance for cladding remediation costs and a commitment that their monthly cladding repayment costs will not exceed £50 a month. We will publish more details on how these schemes will work as soon as we are in a position to do so.