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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Waking Watch Relief Fund covering the cost of alarms installed after 17 December 2020.

We estimated that the £30 million Waking Watch Relief Fund will pay for the installation of alarms in between 300 to 460 buildings and will benefit between 17,400 and 26,680 leaseholders. These estimates are based on fire alarm costs data provided by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) with additional modelling to account for the average number of dwellings in buildings over 18 metres. These are published in the Waking Watch costs data release which is available at www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-waking-watch-costs . The Fund is not intended as a substitute for swift remediation of unsafe cladding for which the Government is providing £5 billion financial support.