Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 2
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Accepted in Part
We reiterate our recommendation from our June 2020 report that in the same way as...
Recommendation
We reiterate our recommendation from our June 2020 report that in the same way as it has done for buildings with ACM cladding, the Government should publish a monthly data release on the number of buildings with non-ACM cladding and other serious fire safety defects awaiting remediation. This data release should also explicitly include buildings between 11m and 18m as well as buildings 18m and above. (Paragraph 10) Who pays for remediation?
Government response summary AI-generated
The government commits to publishing information when appropriate and currently provides monthly updates on ACM cladding and the Building Safety Fund for non-ACM cladding on buildings 18m and above. It does not explicitly commit to a single monthly data release covering all non-ACM cladding and other fire safety defects, including buildings between 11m and 18m, as requested.
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Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted in Part
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...]
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