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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress the Government has made on making loans available for leaseholders for the removal of unsafe cladding.

Our £5 billion investment in grant funding for cladding remediation on buildings of 18 metres and above will protect hundreds of thousands of leaseholders from the cost of remediating unsafe cladding on their homes.  It is right that we have focused grant funding on the tallest buildings - this is in line with longstanding expert advice on which buildings are at the highest risk - and cladding remediation also represents the highest costs.

We are also stepping in to provide a generous finance scheme for the remediation of unsafe cladding on residential buildings of 11- 18 metres, where the risk is lower.  We are working to develop the underpinning details of the finance scheme to ensure that it protects leaseholders, prioritising affordability and accelerating remediation, where required.  Further details on the finance scheme will be made available as soon as we are in a position to do so.