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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to his Answer to the Question from the Rt hon. Member for Leeds Central on 17 October 2022, Official Report, column 369, what the evidential basis was for his assessment that only 24 buildings over 18 metres are waiting to be remediated.

An error has been identified in the answer to the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Official Report, 17 October 2022, Vol 720, c.369). A correction has been issued here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-10-19/debates/C4E8D21A-52A0-4DAA-80AB-8D5F0DC6D29F/LevellingUpHousingAndCommunities#contribution-51382932-D6C4-40CE-A1EB-A8AC6B17FC68

Information and data on the remediation progress of high-rise (over 18 metres) residential and publicly-owned buildings with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems is available in the Building Safety Programme data release on gov.uk at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/aluminium-composite-material-cladding#acm-remediation-data.

For high-rise residential buildings with unsafe non-ACM cladding systems, the Department is continuing to work with building owners to progress applications for the Building Safety Fund at pace so more remedial works can begin as swiftly as possible. Information on registrations to the Building Safety Fund and the remediation progress of buildings proceeding to application can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings#building-safety-fund-registrations-private-sector-and-social-sector.

No estimate has been made for buildings with fire safety defects other than unsafe cladding.