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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's data release entitled Estimating the prevalence and costs of external wall system life-safety fire risk in mid-rise residential buildings in England, published on 17 May 2022, how many buildings estimated to require work to alleviate external wall system life-safety fire risks will be remediated through the Cladding Safety Scheme.

The end use of the Cladding Safety Scheme will depend upon individual decisions made by responsible entities on a building by building basis. Freeholders are responsible for building safety in their own buildings, including the use of the Cladding Safety Scheme, and there are strong safeguards and enforcements in place should they fail to do so in good time. Where buildings require cladding remediation and lack other avenues to support that outcome, we strongly encourage applications to the Cladding Safety Scheme, and are pro-actively working to ensure applications are made.