Cladding Remediation Programme: progress bulletins

January 2025

Key updates

The Minister for Housing, Paul McLennan MSP, gave an update to the Scottish Parliament on Monday 6 January to set out the government’s priorities for cladding remediation work in 2025. These are:

• continuing to take forward our current programme of action
• taking action to increase both the pace and breadth of action on cladding
• developing a collective, national endeavour to address the risks of cladding

You can read the Minister’s update in full on the Scottish Parliament website. Work in putting these priorities into effect is now going ahead.

• commencement of the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024 took place on Monday 6 January 2025, which officially brought its powers into force. Our factsheet explains more about what commencement means in practice.
• we also published the Single Building Assessment (SBA) Standards on Monday 6 January 2025. These set out the process that must be followed when undertaking assessment and if needed remediation for buildings within scope of the Act.
• we are continuing work to consider and respond to the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 Report and recommendations which was published in September 2024. A Ministerial Working Group is supporting the development of that response, with input from a wide range of stakeholders.