This government has delivered the most substantive reforms to building safety in nearly 40 years and leaseholders have been given significant legal protections from unfair remediation bills. All residential buildings above 11 metres in England now have a pathway to fix unsafe cladding, either through a taxpayer-funded scheme or through a developer-funded scheme. Following intensive talks with the home-building sector, we have a solution that is seeing industry take responsibility for fixing fire safety defects. Where developers or building owners are not currently funding cladding remediation, the Government has committed £5.1 billion of taxpayer money to ensure that people are safe in their homes.<\/p>
The Building Safety Act 2022 created extensive new financial protections for leaseholders in buildings above 11 metres or five storeys with historical safety defects. Responsibility for undertaking remedial works and paying for the works in the majority of cases will rest with the building owner. In turn they can seek to secure funding for required works from those responsible for the defects. Where this is not possible, we expect the freeholders to meet the costs. I refer the Hon Member to my statement of 16 November entitled Building Safety Update (Official Report HC, Volume 740, Column 56WS<\/a>) for further information on the progress made to fix residential buildings over 11 metres with unsafe cladding in England.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/457745/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Government policies focused on delivering home insulation supported investment of around £7.4bn on energy efficiency measures1<\/sup> over the last parliament (including some spend prior to 2010). This included spending of £2.9bn on the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and Green Deal2<\/sup>, £3.8bn on the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT), and £0.7bn on the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP)3,4<\/sup>.<\/p> <\/p> The Green Deal comprised a number of different delivery mechanisms including: Green Deal Finance Plans, where the costs of measures are paid back through energy bills over a period of time; the Cashback scheme and Home Improvement Fund, which provided incentives to consumers to install measures; and Green Deal Communities, which provided additional funding for local authority energy efficiency schemes. These were funded through exchequer spending. ECO, CERT and CESP were obligations on energy suppliers (and generators in CESP), which provided energy efficiency measures to domestic households. While not direct Government investment, these were funded by obligated energy companies in order to achieve their statutory targets.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> 1<\/sup><\/em> Supporting costs by measure type are not available, so it is not possible to provide spend on insulation measures specifically. <\/em><\/p> 2<\/sup> Source: Green Deal and ECO stats https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/household-energy-efficiency-national-statistics-headline-release-february-2016<\/a> <\/em><\/p>