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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what commitments have been made to fund the remediation of unsafe (a) aluminium composite material (ACM) and (b) non-ACM external wall systems at no cost to leaseholders by (i) Ballymore, (ii) Barratt, (iii) Bellway, (iv) Berkeley, (v) Bovis, (vi) Countryside, (vii) Crest Nicholson, (viii) Galliard, (ix) Persimmon, (x) Redrow, (xi) Taylor Wimpey and (xii) Durkan for those developments in which each retains a legal interest; and if he will make a statement.

Protection for leaseholders from the costs of remediation is available from a number of sources, including Government funding, warranties and building owners and developers. The remediation of over half of privately owned high-rise residential buildings with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding will be paid for by building owners and developers, or through warranty or insurance claims - without passing the cost to residents and leaseholders. Details of this can be found in Figure 6 of the Building Safety Programme: Monthly Data Release at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/934661/Building_Safety_Data_Release_October_2020.pdf . We expect building owners and developers to step up in a similar way for other kinds of unsafe cladding.