Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 9
9
It is completely unacceptable that, nearly five years after the Grenfell tragedy, the Government still...
Recommendation
It is completely unacceptable that, nearly five years after the Grenfell tragedy, the Government still does not seem to know how many buildings have unsafe cladding or other historic building safety defects. We commend the Secretary of State for finally seeking information from developers and manufacturers, and commend industry for now working at pace to provide this information. The Government must publish, within two months, all available data on the number of buildings of all heights with historic building safety defects—cladding and non-cladding—including data it has received from developers and manufacturers. (Paragraph 21) Who should pay?
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
We are committed to publishing information in data releases as soon as it is appropriate to do so. We currently publish a monthly data release on progress with remediation of unsafe ACM cladding. We also publish a monthly update on the progress of buildings through the Building Safety Fund and provide quarterly updates on Building Safety Fund funding. All new analysis is published in the release when it has been appropriately quality assured. The principle underpinning the monthly release is transparency of high-quality analytical outputs to inform decision making and the public, in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics. We separately publish monthly data related to the progress of the Building Safety Fund (covering remediation of unsafe non-ACM cladding on buildings 18 metres and above) – including the number of applications [...truncated...]