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Scottish ministers given new powers to tackle cladding

The Scottish government set up a cladding remediation programme following the disaster, but has been criticised for its slow progress.

Only £7m out of £97m received from Westminster via Barnett consequentials has been spent to deal with the issue.

A report in February by the local government, housing and planning committee found that of 105 buildings on the programme only one had remediation works carried out, with one other having mitigation work done.

The new bill is intended to help speed up the process.

Abhijeet Kadwe moved himself and his family out of his home on Lancefield Quay in 2022 after he discovered the building had ACM (aluminium composite material) cladding – the same material as Grenfell.

He told BBC Scotland News: “Nothing has actually happened to make us feel safer. The uncertainty makes it worse. We still don’t know where this is all heading.”


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