Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing financial support to not-for-profit social housing providers to assist with the funding of mandatory fire safety repairs for buildings they manage; and if he will make a statement.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities operates two schemes offering financial support for registered providers of social housing to remediate unsafe cladding on buildings over 18 metres in height.

Under its Social Sector ACM fund, the Department has committed £400 million to support registered providers of social housing to remove and replace unsafe ACM cladding on buildings over 18 metres, of which £277 million has been allocated.

Under its £4.5 billion Building Safety Fund, the Department has to date committed £133 million to support registered providers of social housing to remove and replace unsafe non-ACM cladding on buildings over 18 metres. Registered providers of social housing are able to apply for support under the Building Safety Fund under the following conditions:

• To meet the cost of remediation where a registered provider of social housing becomes financially unviable due to the cost of remediation.
• To provide funding equivalent to the amount which providers would otherwise be entitled to pass on to leaseholders, including shared owners.

The Department continues to work closely with Registered Providers of social housing to look at ways to make sure that buildings with unsafe cladding are remediated quickly and proportionately.