Dr Matthew Offord: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to recoup the costs of the Building Safety Fund from residential property developers.
Christopher
Pincher: The Building Safety Fund should not be the only means of funding
the remediation of unsafe cladding on high-rise residential buildings. Building
owners should meet the costs without passing them on to leaseholders wherever
possible, through their own resources or by recovering costs from applicable
warranty schemes or from the developers or contractors who were responsible for
the installation of unsafe cladding, as is happening with more than half of the
private sector buildings with ACM cladding. Applicants to the Building Safety
Fund are required to demonstrate that they have taken all reasonable steps to
recover the costs of replacing the unsafe cladding from those responsible.
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