Cladding Culprits Are Getting £450m From The Taxpayer. They Haven t Repaid A Penny
Ministry of housing said taxpayers money would be clawed back from those at fault. That appears easier said than done.
The government has failed to recover a penny of the £450m it is giving landlords to fix unsafe cladding – despite promising to get tough with those responsible for installing the highly dangerous material.
Last year, in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people, ministers began “naming and shaming” those who still hadn’t removed the flammable coverings on hundreds of high-rise buildings.
The government department in charge of housing approved nearly £450m of handouts to those same landlords to speed the work along – but there were strings attached.
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Starmer questions fishy allocation of funds to Tory areas in Sunak s Budget
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The allocation of £1 billion funding to mainly Conservative seats will look “fishy” to the public, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed.
He said of the 45 areas allocated cash under new towns deals, 40 were represented by Tories and it “feels like pork barrel politics”.
But Boris Johnson said it was partly due to his success in the general election meaning that the Tories now represented a lot of towns.
Rishi Sunak used his Budget to announce the 45 deals “from Castleford to Clay Cross; Rochdale to Rowley Regis; and Whitby to Wolverhampton”.
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But Sir Keir told reporters on Thursday: “If we look at the towns fund there are 45 areas and 40 of those areas are where there is a Conservative MP.