Information pertaining to cladding: FOI release

Information requested

1) How many meetings have been held by the ministerial working group on mortgage lending and cladding over the last two years?
2) Dates and briefing notes from these meetings?
3) How much of the £97.1m cladding funding from the UK government has been spent and a breakdown of what it has been spent on?
4) How many high rise buildings and flats in the governments inventory have combustible cladding and no sprinklers?
 

Response

1) How many meetings have been held by the ministerial working group on mortgage lending and cladding over the last two years?
The Group met five times between 28 April 2020 and 15 March 2021.

2) Dates and briefing notes from these meetings?
Dates and notes of meetings, as well as the Group’s final report and recommendations and a Q&A are already publicly available, published here: Mortgage Lending and Cladding: Ministerial Working Group - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

3) How much of the £97.1m cladding funding from the UK government has been spent and a breakdown of what it has been spent on?
This information is publicly available: Single Building Assessment programme: spending information - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4) How many high rise buildings and flats in the governments inventory have combustible cladding and no sprinklers?
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested, as our data does not break down into granular detail. However, summary information is publicly available, published here: High rise domestic buildings: inventory - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.

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