MPs blast government for inaction as flats remain covered in dangerous cladding

摘要

An influential committee of MPs has lambasted the government for "badly missing" its own target on removing dangerous cladding from high-rise housing blocks. The committee said tens of thousands of residents were still living in fear three years after the Grenfell Tower blaze that took 72 lives and exposed the risk of flammable cladding. Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Account Committee, said the government needed to end arguments over responsibility for installing dangerous cladding and get the problem sorted. The committee said in a report published today that it was "unacceptable" that, three years on from the blaze, Grenfell-style ACM cladding remained on around 300 buildings - around two-thirds of the original total found to have used the material.