High Rise Flats: Insulation

(asked on 23rd May 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his oral contribution of 9 May 2019, Official Report column 687, whether the policy and funding measures announced for residential tower blocks clad in ACM cladding will also apply to any blocks with non-ACM cladding found to be non-compliant with building regulations.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 5th June 2019

The fund will cover reasonable costs associated with the removal and replacement of unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems. This replicates the scope of the social sector fund that has been operational since last year. Non ACM cladding systems or other structural works not directly related to the remediation of ACM cladding systems will not be part of the fund. Government intervention to provide funding for the removal of unsafe ACM cladding is wholly exceptional. It is based on the unparalleled fire risk ACM poses and very real public safety concerns.

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