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<p>All residential buildings above 11 metres in England now have a pathway to fix
unsafe cladding, through either a taxpayer-funded scheme or developer-funded scheme;
the Government has committed £5.1 billion to remove unsafe cladding from buildings.
Five remediation schemes are underway:</p><ul><li>the ACM Cladding Remediation fund:
open since 2018 and covers buildings with the most dangerous type of cladding like
that on Grenfell;</li><li>the Building Safety Fund: first opened in 2020 for buildings
over 18 metres with other forms of unsafe cladding;</li><li>the Cladding Safety Scheme:
which was fully opened in July 2023 for buildings between 11 and 18 metres and is
also open to new applications for 18m+ buildings outside of London;</li><li>developers
have now assumed direct responsibility for remediating all life-critical fire safety
defects in more than 1,000 buildings, and;</li><li>social housing providers are working
to remediate buildings in their portfolios that require remediation.</li></ul><p>Residents
must be at the heart of building safety. This includes the significant and disruptive
works required to remediate buildings, with those responsible for the project and
works considering residents as a key stakeholder throughout. To that end on 27 July
2023, we published the Code of Practice for the Remediation of Residential Buildings
which sets our expectations for all remediation projects. The Code places residents
at the heart of remediations projects as the key stakeholder and sets the standard
for how we expect all remediation projects to account and deliver for residents.</p><p>As
of 31 December 2023, 950 buildings residential buildings over 18 metres in height
in England have been deemed eligible for the Building Safety Fund due to the presence
of unsafe non-ACM cladding. Of these, 486 (51%) have started or completed remediation
and of those 231 (24%) have completed works.</p><p>The then Minister for Housing last
met with the FCA on 11 October 2023 and the Secretary of State met the Association
of British Insurers on 13 December 2023. We continue to press the insurance industry
to launch their scheme, which leaseholders need urgently. The Association of British
Insurers released a public update on the scheme on their blog on 19 December 2023.</p><p>In
the last 6 months, both the Secretary of State and I have met with the FCA (on 11
October 2023) and the Association of British Insurers (on 18 August 2023, 27 November
2023 and 12 December 2023). The Secretary of State met the Association of British
Insurers on 13 December 2023. We continue to press the insurance industry to launch
their scheme, which leaseholders need urgently.</p>
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