Housing minister Lee Rowley has admonished building owners who are not remediating unsafe residential blocks and warned them to “face the consequences for their inaction”.

Government legal action has forced a developer to fix building safety issues at one of its buildings in Birmingham within three weeks.

An MP suggested there are similarities between the unsafe cladding crisis and the Post Office scandal during a select committee session on fire safety.

Lee Rowley has been appointed as housing minister during the latest cabinet reshuffle by PM Rishi Sunak.

The government has set aside £8m more in funding for council enforcement teams to hold building owners to account for cladding repairs on high-rise properties.

The government is consulting developers and other interested parties on its proposed Building Safety Levy.

Former construction minister Lee Rowley has announced that he has been handed the ministerial brief for housing and planning.

Construction minister Lee Rowley has resigned from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.