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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to give financial support to owners of housing blocks clad in HPL to enable the removal of that cladding.

Government intervention does not remove responsibility for overall building safety from the building owner. We have issued advice (updated in December 2018) to building owners on non-Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) external wall systems and managing the safety of buildings of all heights. Building owners should consider all routes to meet costs, for example through warranties and recovering costs from contractors for incorrect or poor work. Government intervention to provide funding for the removal and replacement of unsafe ACM cladding is based on the unparalleled fire risk ACM poses.