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The National Audit Office warned the Government must also ‘manage risks’ to keep its £5.1 billion cap on taxpayer contributions to remediation. A fire broke out in August at a block of flats in east London where dangerous cladding was in the process of being removed (Stefan Rousseau/PA) A […] Click here to view original…

Workers removing cladding from the flats at Chatham Place in Reading in 2022. Fraudsters may have stolen £500,000 from a taxpayer-funded scheme aimed at accelerating the removal of dangerous cladding from buildings, the public spending watchdog has revealed. The National Audit Office said the government decision to prioritise speed […] Click here to view original…

Thousands of people living in buildings with dangerous cladding should be a given a target date for when their homes will be made safe, says Whitehall’s spending watchdog. Between 9,000 and 12,000 buildings are expected to need their cladding dealt with, at a cost of around £16bn. However, more […] Click here to view original…

Watchdog says cladding removal deadline may be missed The National Audit Office (NAO) said up to 60% of buildings with dangerous cladding still haven’t been identified by the government The government could miss its own cladding removal completion date if progress is not made to speed up the process, […] Click here to view original…

On this page Background to the report Scope of the report Conclusions Downloads Publication details Press release Related work Background to the report On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out at Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey residential block in London, and resulted in the deaths of 72 people. The […] Click here to view original…

The fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017 killed 72 people. A new report from the National Audit Office has said the government should pick a date to finish the removal of dangerous cladding form buildings and provide greater transparency on performance. This is the first report on the government’s […] Click here to view original…

The Grenfell Tower in west London. A fire in the high-rise block in 2017 killed 72 people Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Work to make England’s multistorey residential buildings safe from dangerous cladding could […] Click here to view original…

The impacts extend beyond the Grenfell victims with many people suffering financial and emotional distress, the National Audit Office said Fixing all flats with flammable cladding will take until 2037 — 20 years after the Grenfell Tower fire — and is likely to cost £16.6 billion, the National Audit […] Click here to view original…

Following the Grenfell Tower fire, all cladding panels were removed from the Bray Tower Block, in the Chalcots Estate, northwest London (Image: Isochrone via Wikimedia Commons) The National Audit Office is calling on the government to publish a target date for completing cladding remediation. Up to 60% of the […] Click here to view original…

Seven years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy the NAO warns many residents in high-rise buildings have no idea when they will be made safe Seven years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy hundreds of thousands of residents are still in the dark about when their buildings will be made safe, […] Click here to view original…