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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department is having discussions with the owners of Cartier House in Leeds Dock on remediating unsafe cladding and other fire safety risks; and whether his Department has agreed to provide funding from The Building Safety Fund to help support the cost of addressing related fire-safety risks at Cartier House.

The Department issued a funding agreement on 31 October 2022 for £581,274 from the Building Safety Fund to the applicant for Cartier House in Leeds Dock for 'pre-tender support'. Pre-tender support is advance funding to enable the applicant to get to the point at which they have a contract in place to remediate the cladding on Cartier House, including funding for scoping the project, appointing a professional team, and developing a works specification. Homes England, the Department's Delivery Partner for the Building Safety Fund, wrote to the applicant on 12 December 2022 asking them to sign urgently and return the funding agreement.