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Unsafe Cladding

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£ 375 million

Committed to the Welsh Building Safety Fund by the previous Welsh Government

Who has raised this at the Senedd?

Rhun ap Iorwerth MS

First Minister

Sian Gwenllian MS

Local Government & Housing Minister

Kiera Marshall MS

Backbencher

Nick Carter MS

Backbencher

Francesca O'Brien MS

Shadow Local Government Minister

Joe Martin MS

Backbencher

David Hughes MS

Backbencher

Jayne Bryant MS

Chair: Health & Social Care

Mike Hedges MS

Backbencher

Huw Thomas MS

Backbencher

Peter Fox MS

Backbencher

Rhun ap Iorwerth MS

First Minister

Sian Gwenllian MS

Local Government & Housing Minister

Kiera Marshall MS

Backbencher

Nick Carter MS

Backbencher

Francesca O'Brien MS

Shadow Local Government Minister

Joe Martin MS

Backbencher

David Hughes MS

Backbencher

Huw Thomas MS

Backbencher

Jayne Bryant MS

Chair: Health & Social Care

Mike Hedges MS

Backbencher

Peter Fox MS

Backbencher

What are the party positions on this?

Plaid Cymru backbenchers have raised the situation consituents affected by this find themselves in, calling for stronger enforcement against developers failing to remediate buildings at a faster pace.

Residents of Victoria Wharf in Cardiff were sold dream homes, yet due to serious building defects and fire safety failures, including cladding issues, many now face uncertainty and risk, unaffordable and extortionate service charges, insurance costs and ongoing safety concerns. My constituents in Victoria Wharf are living day to day feeling unsafe in their own homes and are dedicating their time to battling developers and having to campaign to be heard and live in safety.

For years now, residents have been afraid in their own homes and have felt that this issue has not been given the attention it deserves. Despite receiving assurances that their property was safe when they moved in, one resident in Cardiff has shared that they face a £3,000 cost for a waking watch, which costs £15,000 a week between 96 flats, and a management company having to find £150,000 to install fire detective equipment.

Reform UK criticise the previous Welsh Government’s lack of enforcement action, and the slow pace of remediation work. They also suggested that social tenants are getting preferential treatment from the government over private residents.

England's Building Safety Act 2022 provided leaseholders with remediation orders and cost protection since 2022. Wales has only now delivered those same powers through the 2026 Act, and secondary legislation remains out to consultation until September (2026)….with only four out of 161 buildings being fully remediated. Given that England ran this exact same consultation process first, is the Welsh Government using the evidence and models already established to assess what's needed here and finally speed up the process?

I ask the Minister, does she accept that this two-tier approach, faster action for social housing and barely there action for the private leaseholders, has been a failure of fair treatment by the Welsh Government? Just take Meridian Quay in my constituency, for example. A resident took an insurance giant to the High Court on behalf of residents. Their claim was worth more than £25 million. Only now, seven years after he stepped in, is remediation expected to start, and will be paid through the financial services compensation scheme, not by this Government.

For years, people have been trapped in unsafe homes, unable to sell, unable to remortgage, living with soaring insurance premiums and, in their own words, fighting for their lives. Let's be clear why this fiasco is still going on: despite the human cost and despite the superhuman efforts of campaigners to secure justice, at every turn, the previous Labour Government met them with warm words and no action. Developers were given voluntary pacts with no teeth, they missed their own targets and faced absolutely no consequences.

Labour MSs support laws introduced in the last Senedd term, but believe developers should be held accountable for delays to remediation work.

Wales has passed very strong legislation going beyond just cladding, but also taking in fire safety. The issue….is one of urgency. Now, there are practical challenges to delivering some of the remediation, so how will the Welsh Government take action to support and overcome some of those practical issues, for example skills within the sector to carry out some of the remediation work, but more specifically….how will your Government hold these companies to account if they continue to prevaricate?

Again, another piece of legislation that went through at the end of the last Senedd term was building safety. I know there's still work to do around the planning and implementation, and I look forward to discussions as that develops. This is absolutely key as part of our response to the Grenfell tragedy. People must feel and be safe in their own homes.

It's important that the Government listens and shares additional information that will be brought forward by regulations, so that housing associations can effectively prepare. Given that financial impact of compliance, how will the Welsh Government ensure that funding mechanisms support compliance and do not force housing associations to trade off the maintenance of existing homes against the delivery of urgently needed new affordable housing?

The commitment to provide financial support to leaseholders facing the cost of interim alarm systems required to support the simultaneous evacuation policy is a positive step, but it's an acknowledgement that, despite all the agreements, we have not reached the stage where work is going to be done everywhere in the near future.... the Welsh Government needs to get legally enforceable agreements with guaranteed completion dates so that my constituents can sleep safely at night.

Conservative MSs have backed holding developers to account, but warn that housing quantity shouldn’t come at the expense of quality.

Minister, there is also a wider challenge here. You have made it clear that increasing housing supply is one of your priorities, with ambitions for 20,000 new social homes by 2030. Now, while increasing supply is important, quantity must never come at the expense of quality. And some of you may have heard Radio Wales this morning, where they were talking about snagging in so many new houses, which have got so many faults. Well, we can't have poorly-built houses in the first place, and the lessons of past building failures must be fully embedded in future development, so that every new home is built to the highest standard of safety, quality and resilience.

Green MSs haven’t said anything on this yet, but did include a lot of housing-related policies in their 2026 manifesto.

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Jane Dodds hasn’t said anything on this specifically.

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Who is responsible?

Sian Gwenllian MS

Local Government & Housing Minister

What have ministers said?

I met the 11 developers last week (September 2026), and my message to them was very, very clear. The message was that the pace of delivery is simply not good enough. And I said that if I don't see progress as outlined in the contract that they signed with the previous Government by the end of this year, I will be bringing their names forward here in the Senedd. I will be taking action. And I think that that is one route that I can definitely tell you, because I've told them, that that will happen within this year as we look at the progress reports. I'm hoping that that's not going to happen.

….we are consulting on new regulations that will mean that those people living in buildings that haven't been remediated, or who are facing additional costs because their service charges have increased because of work that has to be done—those people will have a route to tribunal, once those new regulations are in place.

There is the new legislation in Wales, but there is also the remediation work, which is extremely slow in happening; it is extremely slow—we accept that. I have invited the companies that are continuing with this work to meet with me next month (August 2026), where they will get a very clear message that this Government insists that that remediation work should be accelerated, and that the pace should go up.

We are working quickly to develop regulations under the Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026 to introduce leaseholder protections. Until now, that protection has been available in England, but not in Wales....I can confirm that this Government will take all appropriate actions to ensure that signatories to the Welsh Government's developer contract deliver on their commitments under the agreement.

What's being done about this?

What do the Welsh Government want to do?

Does this need a new law or regulations?

How long will this take?

What do the Welsh Government want to do?

Does this need a new law or regulations?

How long will this take?

What have the Senedd's Committees said?

Nothing has been discussed yet.

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