(Reuters) – UK’s levelling-up minister Michael Gove is set to close a deal worth 5 billion pounds ($6.20 billion) with housebuilders including Barratt Developments and Persimmon to help resolve the national cladding crisis exposed by the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster, Sky News reported on Friday.
($1 = 0.8066 pounds)
(Reporting by Baranjot Kaur in Bengaluru; editing by Diane Craft)
