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<p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is prioritising remediation
on the highest risk buildings. After the Grenfell tragedy, the Government identified
the high-rise buildings with the highest risk ACM cladding and made sure that interim
measures were installed to reassure and protect residents while remediation of those
building is taken forward.</p><p>Government funding is targeted to high rise buildings
(18 metres and over) with ACM and other forms of unsafe cladding. The fire risk is
lower in buildings under 18 metres and costly remediation work is usually not needed. Where
fire risks are identified, they should always be managed proportionately. The Government
has therefore focused its financial support on high-rise residential buildings over
18 metres because we know that the risk to multiple households is greater when fire
does spread in buildings of this height. As the Secretary of State said in his announcement
on Monday 10 January, taxpayers should not be funding the remediation of 11-18 metres
buildings. It is for industry to develop a solution to this problem and ensure that
leaseholders living in their own flats in medium buildings do not pay a penny to remediate
historic cladding defects that are no fault of their own. That is why we are asking
the industry to step up and agree how they can fund cladding remediation in the next
two-three months. Detailed information on which buildings are eligible for Government
funding can be found in Prospectus Annex A: Technical Information of the Building
Safety Fund Prospectus, available at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fremediation-of-non-acm-buildings%23prospectus---outlining-eligibility-for-the-fund&data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7Cbcba84742c21405ac9fc08d9d5eba0ce%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637776030246846084%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=sTdPhfripI2l0KLmMpNJR7oEgul8X8%2BWN4V8r4%2B6ls8%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings#prospectus---outlining-eligibility-for-the-fund</a>.</p><p>
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