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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, following their decision to financially assist public sector housing bodies to pay for re-cladding as a result of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, what plans they have to assist private sector owner occupiers who live in apartment buildings which require new cladding for which they have no resources.

In the private sector, building owners are responsible for making buildings safe. We have been clear we think they or the developers of the buildings should pay and not pass costs on to leaseholders, either funding the work themselves or looking at alternative routes such as insurance claims, warranties or action to ensure those responsible for erecting unsafe cladding pay.

My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State recently held an industry roundtable on the barriers to the remediation of buildings with unsafe cladding. We have said that we rule nothing out at this stage.