Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 1
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We are concerned that, despite our previous recommendation on this issue, the Government still lacks...
Conclusion
We are concerned that, despite our previous recommendation on this issue, the Government still lacks data on the full scale and extent of remediation needed for buildings both below and above 18m. In order to know how much it will cost to remove unsafe cladding from multi-storey buildings once and for all, how long it will take, and whether the industry has the capacity to carry out these works, the Government needs to be collecting and publishing these data as a matter of urgency.
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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...]