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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of leasehold properties that are located in buildings which are not compliant with his Department's fire safety guidance for external walls, Advice Note 14, in (a) the UK, (b) London and (c) Lewisham, Deptford constituency.

Information on the number of dwellings in high-rise residential and publicly owned buildings with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet building regulations yet to be remediated in England is available in the monthly building safety programme data release here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-monthly-data-release-december-2019.

The Department has also commenced a data collection exercise which will enable us to build a picture of external wall systems in use on high rise residential buildings. The exercise will collect data on residential buildings 18 metres and over covering private and social buildings, student accommodation and hotels in England. We will publish appropriate summary information from the data collection in our monthly Building Safety Programme data release in due course.