Ministers are poised to announce billions of pounds of extra money to help homeowners tackle the cladding crisis, it was reported on Tuesday night
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is due make a Commons statement at lunchtime Wednesday where he is expected to say a deal has been struck with the Treasury to help homeowners to remove potentially flammable panels from tower blocks.
The issue, which was identified in the aftermath of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people were killed, is estimated to affect about 11 million people.
Tory MPs have piled pressure on the Government to act after flats were left unsellable by the scandal as leaseholders, freeholders and developers disputed who should pay.
Boris Johnson last week promised leaseholders will be protected from massive bills for fixing fire safety defects.
He told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions: "We are determined that no leaseholder should have to pay for the unaffordable costs of fixing safety defects that they didn't cause and are no fault of their own."
The Ministry for Housing, Local Government and Communities was approached for comment on Tuesday.
The Mirror revealed last week how town hall chiefs wanted a new levy to claw back money from property developers to fix the cladding crisis.
The Local Government Association said ministers must pay for fire safety work for owners of leasehold and recover costs from developers via courts.
