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<p>This year the Government has provided £10 million of additional funding to improve
inspection capacity and capability on high-rise residential buildings. This is supporting
the National Fire Chiefs Council to establish a new national infrastructure to support
frontline protection work and the Fire and Rescue Services to conduct a Building Risk
Review of all high rise residential buildings over 18m by the end of 2021.</p><p>Building
safety is the responsibility of the building owner, and we expect remedial works to
progress at pace. Remediation works to remove and replace unsafe Aluminium Composite
Material (ACM) cladding systems have either completed or started on over 70 per cent
of all identified high rise residential buildings. We have made clear that we expect
the rest to have started work on site before the end of the year and for all to have
completed by the end of 2021.</p><p>Government has recognised that finance can be
a barrier to remediation and has made significant funds available to speed up the
remediation of buildings while protecting leaseholders from significant costs. For
the remediation of unsafe non-ACM cladding we have made £1 billion available to fund
the removal of unsafe non-ACM cladding in 2020/21. This is in addition to the £600
million made available already to ensure the remediation of unsafe ACM cladding. Government
funding is not and should not be the only source of funds and for over half of private
residential buildings with ACM claddings, the ACM remediation is being funded from
other sources without falling to leaseholders to pay.</p><p>The Building Safety Programme
Monthly Data Release includes an appendix on ACM remediation in local authority areas.
The latest data release, covering the period up to the end of July was published on
13 August and can be found here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fbuilding-safety-programme-monthly-data-release-july-2020&data=02%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C37f76536b9344ee50e1308d848ed963d%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637339532545067453&sdata=qYW3d2fFhOlqIZu6pJTGdeETs7%2Fp4%2FjOXv4kQMrgddk%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-monthly-data-release-july-2020</a>.</p><p>
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