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Up up until now, the government's approach breakdown as follows. dangerous cutting removal would be paid for by the building safety front only for buildings of 18.5 metres in height. everything else would be covered either by developers paying or by a loan scheme for leaseholders. but we understand that michael gove, the levelling up secretary, will make a commitment on monday that up to £4 billion of extra funding will be available to remove dangerous cladding and buildings between 11 and 18 one half metres, and that leaseholders will not have to pay anything towards that cost, a significant...

Ex-employees who work at npr. what are we now? 18.5% of the u.s. population, but only 7% of npr. not a good look. how upset about this can you be? the revolution always eats itself. in npr's case it's hard to weep about that. hears the deepest irony of all. this is what you will enjoy the most. npr spends all this time practicing white supremacy. privileged white people are npr 's core audience. they are the only people who listen. we checked the audience numbers. here's what they are. npr's audience is 84% white. we don't have a problem with that. we don't hate white people and are not racist...

For the crisis and ease the unfair burden placed on leaseholders. until now, the government's approach was for dangerous cladding removal to be paid for by the building safety fund. it was only for buildings more than 18.5 metres in height. everything else was to be covered by developers paying or via a loans scheme for leaseholders. but next week the government will tell developers they have to pay, up to £4 billion, to cover the cost of fixing or removing cladding from buildings between 11 and 18.5 metres in height. developers will be threatened with a change to the law if they don't pay up...

What more do we know? it is important, because up to now ministers have insisted the only people who should receive help are those in buildings with the height of over 18.5 metres for dangerous cladding removal, and i understand on monday michael gove, the levelling up secretary, will tell the house of commons at that threshold would be brought down to 11 metres. so, if you're in a building, and you're a leaseholder, lets not forget so many thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of them facing potentially ruinous bills and on mortgage above flats as a result of dangerous cladding,...

He will make a statement to mps with the aim of easing the "unfair burden" on leaseholders. up to half a million flat owners across the uk may no longer face the cost of replacing dangerous cladding on their properties. our business correspondent simon browning has the details. it's a building safety crisis. an estimated half a million people live in homes wrapped in flammable materials. added to that a missing fire breaks, defective insulation and flammable balconies. but who is to blame, and who should fix them? up to now the government's approach was for dangerous cladding removal to be pai...