Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support residents of buildings with unsafe cladding.

The Government is committed to protecting qualifying leaseholders from the costs of fixing historic building safety defects that were not their fault.  Legislation has been introduced to ensure that qualifying leaseholders are both protected from costs and can pursue building owners and developers for contributions to fix these issues. Pathways are in place for all residential buildings over 11 meters in England to fix unsafe cladding through government funds, developer contributions, or registered providers of social housing.

Too many buildings still have unsafe cladding, and the pace of remediation has been too slow. Any building owner who fails to make their building safe faces enforcement action. The Code of Practice for the Remediation of Residential Buildings requires all remediation projects to treat residents as key stakeholder in the remediation process.

Government continues to put residents at the heart of the building safety agenda and conducts fortnightly building visits to engage residents to better understand their experiences and to support them.