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 held discussions with (a) Scotfield and (b) Shephard Construction on signing the developers pledge on unsafe cladding.

Last year, 49 of the largest developers signed a public pledge committing to fix life-critical fire-safety defects in residential buildings 11 metres and over in height which they developed or refurbished in England over the last 30 years. Scotfield and Shephard Construction are not signatories to the pledge

On 30 January 2023, the Government published the developer remediation contract, which sets out the detail of the commitments in the pledge and will be legally binding once signed, and a letter to developers asking them to sign the contract by 13 March. The letter was sent to developers who had signed the pledge and to several who have not signed it and stated that recipients who did not sign the contract by 13 March should expect this fact to be made public

In his statement of 30 January, the Secretary of State made clear that we intend to extend the Scheme in due course to an even larger group of developers who are associated with unsafe buildings 11 metres and over in height and who should be paying to fix them.