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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions his Department has had with HM Treasury in the last three months on establishing a loan system for leaseholders to pay for building remediation for high rise properties at risk.

The Government has been clear that it is unacceptable for leaseholders to have to worry about the cost of fixing historic safety defects in their buildings that they didn’t cause. My Department regularly engages with HMT on this important issue. The Department is investigating solutions that will help to protect leaseholders.