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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information he holds on policies of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on compensating council tenants for loss of belongings.

The Government has made available a £5 million Grenfell Tower Residents Discretionary Fund to help meet the immediate needs of those affected. Each family whose home was destroyed is receiving a £5,500 payment from the emergency fund so they can buy food, clothes and other essentials. We are also paying all additional adults over 16 in these households £500 in cash. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is making additional payments to those affected on a case by case basis, for example to those whose home has been severely impacted but not permanently destroyed.