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.
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