Dangerous cladding: PAC to hold two-part session on plans for remediation
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) holds a two-part evidence session on the remediation of dangerous cladding on Monday 3rd February at 3.30pm.
Meeting details
The National Audit Office reported in November 2024 that up to 60% of buildings with dangerous cladding had not yet been identified. It highlighted hundreds of thousands of residents who have no idea when their building will be made safe, with many continuing to suffer significant emotional and financial distress.
The session’s first panel will hear from the End Our Cladding Scandal campaign on the current experience of residents. Other likely topics to be discussed with housing sector representatives include how to accelerate remediation in social housing, strengthening enforcement and paying for remediation.
The Committee will then move into its second panel to question senior Government and Homes England officials. The panel will likely see scrutiny of Government plans for identifying buildings with dangerous cladding. Current estimates are the 9,000 to 12,000 buildings over 11m will need remediating. At the time of the NAO’s report, only just under 5,000 buildings had been identified, with work yet to start on around a third of these.
Discussion is also likely on the adequacy of the support residents living with cladding receive, as well as the likely impact of remediation on the public purse.