Cost of fixing unsafe cladding soars to over £16bn

Independent spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, believes it will cost over £16bn to fix unsafe cladding on all buildings over 11m in the country.
The huge cost of widening the scope of buildings needing to fix fire safety problems beyond 18m tall to lower rise building of 11m height was revealed in a new report from the spending watchdog.
Between 9,000 and 12,000 buildings above this height are now estimated to need cladding retrofits.
More than 7,200 of those buildings are yet t