Gove threatens to put 11 developers who have not signed cladding contract ‘out of business’

By Carl Brown2023-03-15T09:07:00

Housing secretary repeats pledge to stop developers trading as deadline passes

Michael Gove has threatened to put 11 housebuilders who missed yesterday’s deadline for signing a building safety contract out of the “housebuilding business entirely” unless they sign up.

The housing secretary read out a list of 11 developers (see below) in the House of Commons this afternoon who were asked to sign the contract, which gives legal force to a pledge to remediate their own blocks over 11m going back 30 years, but have not yet done so.

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