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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the progress made by the private sector to remediate the use of unsafe aluminium composite materials on high rise buildings.

The Department publishes data on the number of high-rise residential and publicly owned buildings in England with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet building regulations. The latest data is available (attached) at:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/884990/Building_Safety_Data_Release_April_2020.pdf.

The publication shows that as of the end of April 2020, the number of private residential high-rise buildings in England identified with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet building regulations in England was 208. Of those: 28 had completed remediation, 14 had started remediation and the ACM cladding had been removed, 35 had started remediation (ACM cladding not yet removed), 90 had a remediation plan in place, 40 had an intent to remediate and one building had an unclear remediation plan.