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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of increased funding support needed for local authorities to speed up the completion of non-cladding remediation works in social housing.

As part of our Decade of Renewal for Social Housing we have announced measures to rebuild the financial capacity of social housing providers, including to support their investment in existing homes. We have set a stable long-term rent policy of CPI+1% for 10 years plus social rent convergence, confirmed over £1 billion of building safety funding (between 2026-2027 and 2029-20 30), and just under £1.15 billion has been offered to retrofit social homes across 138 projects under Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3 across England. In April 2026, the government announced it will be providing a further £100 million for solar panel installations.

For the non-cladding defects, the Government expects the party responsible to meet remediation costs. Where an 11m+ social housing building was not developed by the social housing provider directly, the building owner can apply for a remediation contribution order against the developer to reimburse remediation costs. Many developers have agreed voluntarily to remediate defects they have created. Where the social housing provider is responsible for the defect they are responsible for funding remediation independently.