UK to sign deal with homebuilders to fix building safety issues – Sky News

(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)

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