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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the Government’s timescale is for ensuring that all high-rise residential buildings identified with ACM cladding have had that cladding removed and replaced.

It is the Government’s priority to ensure that unsafe ACM cladding is removed and replaced swiftly from high rise residential buildings, and at no cost to leaseholders. The £600 million which the Government has committed to remediate high-rise residential buildings with unsafe ACM cladding removes the biggest blocker to pace of remediation.

The Department has regular engagement with a named contact from each building to ensure progress with remediation is being made. Building owners who have not already taken action, must do so now. Further delay is not acceptable. Where building owners are failing to make acceptable progress, those responsible should expect further action to be taken – including naming and shaming and enforcement.