THE Scottish government insisted today it was “committed to doing what is right” to tackle dangerously flammable cladding on buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Scottish Labour’s Mark Griffin slammed “the SNP’s lack of urgency” as “nothing short of scandalous” when it emerged that no remediation works had taken place last October.

Since then, just two of the 107 properties identified in Scotland have been been made safe, whereas in England, work has begun on 49 per cent of the affected homes and on a third of them, 1,652, it has been completed.

Publishing The Building Safety Levy (Scotland) Bill to help fund works estimated to cost between £1.7 billion and £3.1bn, SNP Public Finance Minister Ivan McKee said: “The Scottish government is committed to doing what is right and necessary to address the challenge.

“That includes putting the appropriate funding arrangements in place to ensure that the associated costs of cladding remediation do not fall directly onto affected homeowners.

“I know that developers share our determination to keep people safe and this levy will ensure they make a fair contribution to these costs, just as they will be doing in England.”