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Social Rented Housing: Fire Prevention

Asked by Rachel BlakeLabour (Co-op)Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 19 March 2025UIN 37462

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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an estimate of costs for housing associations related to the remediation of aluminium composite material cladding.

Answered by Alex Norris

In 2018, government estimated that the cost of removing and replacing unsafe ACM cladding on 18m+ social residential buildings would be approximately £400 million. As of March 2025, 144 high rise buildings had entered the Social Sector ACM Fund. To date, government schemes approved allocation of c.£297 million towards remediating those buildings, including c.£101 million for buildings owned by Housing Associations.

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