by our parliamentary reporter @TrinderMatt

TROOPS are being housed in high-rise buildings with flammable cladding more than four years after the Grenfell Tower disaster.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed today that 755 buildings with sleeping accommodation in Britain are either fully or partially covered in combustible cladding.MoD,

Of those, 27 are high rises — defined as six floors or above — and remedial work has started on just one, with investigations still under way on the extent of the changes needed for the other 26.

They are used for single-living accommodation for personnel housed in military bases across the country, the MoD said.

The figures were revealed in a response to a written parliamentary question submitted by Labour MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport Luke Pollard.

Labour’s shadow defence secretary John Healey said: “Four years on from the Grenfell tragedy and the MoD still has not removed flammable cladding on sky rises that house forces personnel.

“Labour has proposed the government set up a national cladding taskforce with a legally enforceable deadline for removing all unsafe cladding, which should include all MoD property.”

The former shadow housing secretary slammed Tory ministers for their “slow and insufficient” response to the June 2017 blaze, which left 72 people dead and many more homeless in the west London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. 

Some work has been undertaken to remove unsafe cladding from buildings nationwide following the disaster, but concerns persist about a lack of urgency over the remedial work as the public inquiry rumbles on.