MPs to investigate cladding remediation progress
Top Stories Tamfitronics A high-profile Parliamentary committee has announced a probe into the government’s progress in remediating high-rise buildings with dangerous cladding.The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it would summon senior officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and Homes England to give evidence.Its inquiry will delve into how effectively government schemes have been identifying and remediating unsafe cladding and managing the associated costs.A statement from the committee said: “In its 2020 report on remediating dangerous cladding, the committee expressed its condemnation at the badly missed target of June 2020 for all high-rise blocks to have Grenfell-style cladding removed.“The MHCLG accepted at the time that progress had been unacceptably slow.”The PAC’s new inquiry will assess whether recent government initiatives have successfully remedied system-wide issues and made meaningful progress in the past four...
