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Government doing ‘bare minimum’ on fire safety for leaseholders, MPs hear
Workmen remove the cladding from the facade of a block of flats in Paddington, north London
“At local level, it’s different."
THE government was accused today of doing the “bare minimum” to help leaseholders whose homes are covered in flammable cladding and riddled with fire safety defects.
John McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, condemned the Tory government for its proposal to only pay for the removal of cladding from buildings over 18 metres high.
The Fire Safety Bill returned to the Commons today. It was proposed in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 that killed 72 people.
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