Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 23 April 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to support leaseholders of tower blocks incurring costs to replace unsafe aluminium composite material cladding installed by local government or housing association freeholders.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to support leaseholders in tower blocks who are unable to afford requested charges to (a) fund continuous waking watch fire patrols as a result of unsafe aluminium composite material cladding and (b) replace such cladding.
The Secretary of State announced on 4 December that the Department is providing additional funding to the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE), an arm’s length-body which provides free initial legal advice to leaseholders, to advise on fire safety issues.
The Government would like to see building owners doing all they can to protect leaseholders from the costs of interim measures and cladding remediation – either by funding it themselves or looking at alternative routes such as insurance claims, warranties or legal action.
The Department is keeping the situation under review.
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