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Further 7,000 residential buildings outside official statistics could be unsafe, warns minister

By 2024-09-12T10:57:00

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Rushanara Ali warns 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.

However Rushanara Ali told parliament yesterday that “counting the buildings that we know about is not enough”.

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