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 will be no cladding or other structural fire risks present as to prevent the issuing of an EWS1 certificate on or within the Foundry Court residential building in Slough.
The Government does not publicly disclose information about individual buildings. The EWS1 form is not a building safety certificate. It is a process requested by valuers, on behalf of mortgage lenders, to understand potential financial risk and to inform a property valuation.
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.