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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, by which date the Government plans to ensure that there (a) are no missing or incorrectly installed cavity barriers, (b) are no structural combustible sheathing boards and (c) is no combustible material in the cavity of the Ibex House residential building in Slough.

The Government does not publicly disclose information about individual buildings. Government support is focused on cladding because unsafe cladding acts as an accelerant to fire spread, and funding will remove the biggest obstacle to remediation proceeding.

The Government is clear that building safety is the responsibility of building owners and has given expert advice on a range of safety issues to provide clarity. To help increase the pace of remediation, the Government has made £1.6 billion of public funding available for the remediation of unsafe cladding on high rise residential buildings. In addition to funding the removal of unsafe cladding, Government is also providing expert technical and pre-tender financial support for successful fund applicants. Where building owners have still failed to act, despite support, we have supported enforcement action.