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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what information his Department holds on the number of residential blocks in (a) the London Borough of Hounslow and (b) Brentford and Isleworth constituency which are waiting for the removal of (i) aluminium composite material and (ii) non aluminium composite material cladding.

Information on the number of high-rise (over 18 metres) residential and publicly-owned buildings with Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations is available in the Building Safety Programme data release. Figures for the London Borough of Hounslow can be found here.

For high-rise residential buildings with unsafe non-ACM cladding, the Department is continuing to work with building owners to progress applications for the Building Safety Fund. Information on registrations to the Building Safety Fund (including by local authority) can be found here, showing a total of 30 registrations in Hounslow.

Information on the prevalence of external wall system life-safety fire risk in 11-18m residential buildings in England is available here. The Department's analysis of the estimate of the prevalence of external wall system life-safety fire risk in mid-rise residential buildings is not available at local authority or constituency level.

As of 31 December 2022, a total of 17 residential buildings over 18 metres in height in the London Borough of Hounslow and a total of 17 buildings in the Brentford and Isleworth constituency have been identified as still having unsafe ACM cladding awaiting removal or have been deemed eligible for the Building Safety Fund due to the presence of unsafe non-ACM cladding but are yet to complete remediation.