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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the health-related effects on residents affected by cladding remediation work.

The Government is committed to ensuring residents are safe, and feel safe, in their homes. We have set up a comprehensive programme to oversee the remediation of high-rise residential buildings with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding.

The Health and Safety Executive, National Fire Chiefs Council and Local Authority Building Control are working together in consultation with the Local Government Association to coordinate a series of joint inspections on remedial works. Where possible, the Health and Safety Executive’s interventions will be carried out alongside local fire and rescue services and local authority building control to ensure that the regulation of workplace, public and fire safety risks from remediation work are addressed holistically.