Scotland has 219 government-funded cladding safety assessments under way, up by 70 in three months. Sixteen have been completed, a total unchanged since September 2025, while 22 buildings have urgent interim safety measures in place.
At the end of March, 149 government-funded Single Building Assessments were under way. Three months later, that figure had risen to 219.
The completed total did not move.
Sixteen government-funded assessments had been completed by 30 June, the same number recorded nine months earlier. Another 29 reports had reached the Scottish Government but were still being checked against the programme’s technical and assurance requirements.
All 16 completed assessments identified remediation work.
The programme is therefore handling a much larger number of buildings at the assessment stage than it was earlier this year, while the number that has completed that process remains unchanged.
Assessments Have Expanded Through Councils and Housing Providers
Most of the increase has come through organisations already responsible for large numbers of homes.
Registered Social Landlords were progressing 121 assessments at the end of June. Local authorities were progressing 97, compared with 31 at the end of March. One further assessment was being managed by a factor or property manager.
A Single Building Assessment examines the external wall system of a residential building and determines whether work is required to address risks to life.
The programme received 1,799 expressions of interest through its Single Open Call. Of those, 956 had been identified as likely to qualify for government-funded assessment, while 843 had been assessed as ineligible.
The larger assessment pipeline has not yet produced a similar increase in completed reports. Twenty-nine had been submitted to government but remained under review because they were incomplete or had not yet been confirmed as meeting the required specification.
Few Buildings Have Reached Permanent Remediation
Once an assessment identifies work, the building must still move through design, funding, responsibility and procurement before construction begins.
At 30 June, government-funded remediation reported through the programme had been completed on one building.
Additional work recommended for that property, for which homeowners were responsible, remained outstanding.
Government-funded remediation was under way on another two buildings. Developer-funded remediation had begun on two more.
The Scottish Government states that its quarterly management information does not capture every privately funded cladding repair or work carried out outside the programme.
The published figures therefore show the buildings moving through the national remediation system rather than every external-wall intervention taking place in Scotland.
Interim Safety Measures Have More Than Doubled
While permanent work remains limited, the number of buildings operating with temporary safety measures has increased.
Urgent Interim Measures were in place at 22 buildings at the end of June, compared with ten at the end of March.
The Scottish Government defines these as temporary measures required where an assessor identifies an immediate risk to human life that is considered unacceptable.
They can include waking watches, upgraded fire-alarm systems and changes to evacuation procedures.
Nine buildings whose assessments had been directly commissioned by the Scottish Government required such measures, and all nine had them in place. Another 13 buildings elsewhere in the programme were also operating with interim protections.
An assessment being under way does not itself establish that a building has a life-safety defect. The 22 buildings are those where temporary measures had already been identified as necessary.
The Estimated National Requirement Is Much Larger
The current programme sits within a much larger estimated pool of residential buildings.
Scottish Government modelling puts the number of residential buildings at least 11 metres high at around 13,400.
About 1,100 are estimated to be above 18 metres, while roughly 12,300 fall between 11 and 18 metres.
Within that stock, the government estimates that between 1,260 and 1,450 buildings might require work to address risks associated with external wall systems.
Those figures are estimates rather than a list of identified unsafe buildings. The modelling cannot determine which individual properties will require remediation.
Billions Could Be Required Over 15 Years
The expected financial scale grows with the number of buildings that may ultimately require work.
The Scottish Government has modelled potential public capital requirements of between £1.7 billion and £3.1 billion over a possible 15-year programme.
That is not an approved fixed budget. The range depends on assumptions about how many buildings require work, the extent of that work, future construction costs and the proportion paid by developers.
Recorded expenditure through the Cladding Remediation Programme stood at £21.6 million from 2021-22 to 30 June 2026.
A further £31.5 million was transferred to 13 local authorities earlier in 2026 for assessments and associated mitigation.
Edinburgh received £8.7 million, North Lanarkshire £7.7 million and Fife £3.6 million. Falkirk received £2.2 million, Aberdeen £1.8 million, South Lanarkshire £1.7 million, Highland £1.5 million and Dundee £1.4 million.
The shift of funding into councils has coincided with the increase in council-led assessments from 31 at the end of March to 97 at the end of June.
Developers Are Progressing Buildings at Different Rates
Developers also have a formal role in the remediation system.
Five companies had reported responsibility for 122 buildings under the Developer Remediation Contract by 30 June: Barratt Redrow, Bellway, Miller Homes, Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey.
The position varies markedly by company.
Barratt Redrow reported responsibility for 58 buildings, with no Single Building Assessments recorded as under way at the reporting date.
Taylor Wimpey reported 37 buildings, with six assessments under way.
Bellway reported 18 buildings, with 17 under way.
Persimmon reported five buildings, with four under way and one completed.
Miller Homes reported four buildings, with assessments under way on all four.
One developer-funded assessment had been completed and remediation had begun. Work had also started on another building while its assessment was still under way.
The published data does not explain why progress differs between developers.
The 2024 Act Created a Formal National Register
The Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024 came into operation in January 2025.
It gave Scottish ministers powers to arrange Single Building Assessments and remediation, carry out urgent work and intervene where external wall systems create substantial risks to life.
The legislation also created the Cladding Assurance Register.
The register records whether a building has been assessed, whether remediation was identified and whether that work has been completed.
Seventeen buildings with completed assessments had been entered on the register by 30 June.
Public online access to the register is still being developed. Information can currently be requested in writing.
The Government’s Targets Extend to 2029
The Scottish Government’s Next Phase Plan, published in August 2025, said eligible expressions of interest should have assessment funding confirmed and an SBA instructed, urgent mitigation should be acted on immediately, and buildings where essential remediation had been identified should be placed on a pathway towards permanent work.
It also set an objective that by 2029 every high-risk residential building above 18 metres should be resolved, whether made safe, decommissioned or replaced.
Buildings between 11 and 18 metres were to have a defined route towards resolution.
Sources
Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme: Quarterly Management Information — June 2026 (Q2)
Scottish Government, 15 September 2026
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-cladding-remediation-programme-quarterly-management-information-june-2026-q2/
Scottish Government-Funded Single Building Assessments Underway
Scottish Government, 15 September 2026
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-cladding-remediation-programme-quarterly-management-information-june-2026-q2/pages/scottish-government-funded-single-building-assessments-underway/
Scottish Government-Funded Single Building Assessments Completed
Scottish Government, 15 September 2026
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-cladding-remediation-programme-quarterly-management-information-june-2026-q2/pages/scottish-government-funded-single-building-assessments-completed/
Scottish Government-Funded Mitigation and Remediation
Scottish Government, 15 September 2026
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-cladding-remediation-programme-quarterly-management-information-june-2026-q2/pages/scottish-government-funded-mitigation-and-remediation/
Developer-Funded Assessment and Remediation
Scottish Government, 15 September 2026
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-cladding-remediation-programme-quarterly-management-information-june-2026-q2/pages/developer-funded-assessment-and-remediation/
Financial Information — Cladding Remediation Programme
Scottish Government, 15 September 2026
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-cladding-remediation-programme-quarterly-management-information-june-2026-q2/pages/financial-information/
Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Estimates
Scottish Government, June 2025
https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-cladding-remediation-estimates-june-2025/
Cladding Remediation Capital Spend Forecasting
Scottish Government
https://www.gov.scot/publications/cladding-remediation-capital-spend-forecasting/
Cladding Remediation Programme: Next Phase Plan for Action
Scottish Government, August 2025
https://www.gov.scot/publications/cladding-remediation-programme-next-phase-plan-action/
Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024
legislation.gov.uk
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/7/contents
