Rushanara Ali says those responsible for thousands of buildings have yet to apply to cladding safety scheme to fix defects
A further 7,000 residential buildings that are not being remediated through the official cladding safety scheme could be unsafe, the building safety minister has warned.
Official figures last month showed remediation work has yet to start on around half of the 4,630 buildings identified as unsafe.
But Rushanara Ali told parliament yesterday that 鈥渃ounting the buildings that we know about is not enough鈥� and there could be many more outside the official statistics.
She said: 鈥淲e estimate that as many as 7,000 buildings that need remediation have not yet applied for the cladding safety scheme.
鈥淭hat is a maximum estimate鈥攖here may well be fewer than that鈥攂ut those responsible for those buildings have no excuse for failing to apply. We will work with regulators to ensure that the buildings are identified.鈥�
The cladding safety scheme, announced in 2022, provides funding to address 鈥渓ife safety fire risks鈥� in residential buildings over 11m in height and between 11m and 18m in London).
The pace of remediation has become a major topic of discussion in recent weeks, following last month鈥檚 fire in Dagenham that engulfed a seven-storey building and last week鈥檚 Grenfell Inquiry report.
Following the fire, which required 40 fire engines and 225 firefighters to put out, housing secretary Angela Rayner demanded faster progress on making buildings safe.
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