MPs tell government to stop bickering with building owners and sort out cladding woes

By Joey Gardiner2020-09-16T05:00:00

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Public Accounts Committee says housing ministry must get a grip of delays in removing flammable material

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.

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