Thursday, 21 January 2021

MPs Demand Answers Over Cladding Fund Gagging Clause

A committee of cross-party MPs has written to Robert Jenrick demanding answers over the inclusion of non-disclosure agreement clauses in two cladding removal funds. Their letter refers to a clause in the £1bn Building Safety Fund and the £200m private sector aluminium composite material cladding fund which restricts applicants from speaking to any journalists about the project or funding agreement without prior written approval from the government. The clause “seemingly also restricts public interest disclosure” without Homes England, the Greater London Authority and the MHCLG first being given the chance to make “representations” about any disclosure, the committee’s letter said. Read the letter on the House of Commons website.

https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/4337/documents/44127/default/

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