Willmott Dixon bill for cladding repairs set to top £11m

By Dave Rogers2021-06-14T05:00:00

Firm says issue helped send profit slumping more than 60% last year

Willmott Dixon has again been forced to make a provision of more than £5m to carry out possible repair work on cladding following the Grenfell Tower fire four years ago, taking the amount it is having to fork out on the issue to more than £11m.

In its 2020 accounts filed at Companies House, the firm said it was adding another £5.4m to the £6.2m it set aside to fix the problem in 2019.

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