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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on who is financially liable for the cost of remediation work to make buildings safe where a building has been found not to meet the building regulations at the time it was built.

We have been clear that building owners and industry should make buildings safe without passing on costs to leaseholders. Where they have not stepped up, we have intervened by providing grant funding for the removal of unsafe cladding on all buildings over 18 metres. The total amount of this grant funding scheme represents a globally unprecedented investment of over £5 billion in building safety which will protect hundreds of thousands of leaseholders from the cost of replacing unsafe cladding on their homes.

Ministers regularly meet with relevant external stakeholders.

Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on the gov.uk website: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/956236/Ministerial_meetings_July_to_Sept_2020.csv/preview.