The government has declined to put a timeframe on when work to remove cladding featuring aluminium composite material from tower blocks and public buildings across the UK following the Grenfell fire two years ago will be completed.

Responding to a question from Labour MP Grahame Morris, housing minister Kit Malthouse said the government did not hold “comprehensive data on planned completion dates” for the remediation of aluminium composite material (ACM) buildings.

Malthouse said the government had provided £600m-worth of funding to remove unsafe ACM cladding from high-rise residential buildings in the social and private sectors, which he said would “remove the biggest blocker to progress on remediation in these buildings”.