Too many buildings remain unsafe after Grenfell disaster, housing minister warns

A residential block in Colindale, north London, where work to remove unsafe cladding is incomplete. Statistics show that work is yet to begin on 2,415 buildings. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Far too many high and medium-rise buildings are still unsafe after the Grenfell disaster, with dangerous cladding remaining on at least 2,400 blocks, a housing minister has warned.

Wajid Khan, a Labour peer and housing minister, said on Friday that remediation work had not started at approximately 50% of properties being monitored for their unsafe cladding.