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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing funding for all fire safety remediation up-front on a full building basis and recovering costs at a later date from any responsible parties on residents living within buildings requiring remediation work.

The Government has made significant taxpayer available funding to mitigate and resolve cladding related issues in buildings over 11m in England. It has also ensured, through the Building Safety Act, that building owners and landlords who built defective buildings, or are associated with those responsible, contribute to remedying historical safety defects for both cladding and non-cladding defects. Landlords that meet the cost contribution test must not pass on any costs relating to historical safety defects to qualifying leaseholders.