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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average waiting time for decisions to be made on applications for loans made by leaseholders living in blocks affected by cladding-related issues; and what plans he has to implement an appeals process for leaseholders declined a loan.

We have announced an unprecedented multi-billion investment to protect hundreds of thousands of leaseholders from the cost of replacing unsafe cladding on their homes. Now that the significant increase in Government funding and the financing solution have been announced, we will publish more details on how these will work as soon as is possible.