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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities are adequately resourced to undertake fire safety remediation works on council homes.

The Government is investing over £5 billion supporting the owners of residential buildings over 18m in height to carry out necessary fire safety remediation.

This includes £400 million for the full funding of remediation of unsafe aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding on social sector residential buildings over 18m in height, including council-owned blocks. 98% of social sector buildings in the Fund have started remediation and 69% have completed.

In addition, social sector landlords including councils are eligible to apply to the £4.5 billion Building Safety Fund to support the costs of remediating non-ACM cladding that would otherwise be borne by leaseholders in their buildings, including shared owners.