Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that contractors are charging fair and reasonable prices for remediation works on buildings clad with unsafe materials given the high demand for those remediation services.

All applicants for remediation grant funding are required to confirm that costs are competitive and reasonable. Reasonable costs are required to be informed by an industry standard approach to specification and procurement of works having regard to cost benchmarks established from comparable projects. Higher than expected costs will be challenged and will be subject to further scrutiny. For more information please see the Building Safety Fund Prospectus available at: www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings#prospectus---outlining-eligibility-for-the-fund .