Only 16 buildings have completed Scottish Government-funded cladding safety assessments despite £21.6 million being spent on Scotland’s remediation programme since 2021.
New figures show the number of completed Single Building Assessments has not increased since September last year, with all 16 identifying work that needs to be carried out.
The assessments are designed to establish whether cladding systems on residential buildings pose a risk to human life and what work is required to make them safe.
Eight of the completed assessments are for buildings in Glasgow, six are in Edinburgh and one each is in Aberdeen and Dundee.
Another 29 assessment reports had been submitted to the Scottish Government by the end of June but were still being reviewed to determine whether they met the required specifications and standards.
Scottish Government-funded cladding remediation has been completed on one building, with further work for which homeowners are responsible still outstanding.
Remediation work was underway on another two buildings at the end of June.
The latest figures come nine years after the Grenfell Tower fire in London, which killed 72 people and led to increased scrutiny of combustible cladding and fire safety in high-rise residential buildings across the UK.
There has been faster progress in getting assessments started. Assessments were underway on 219 buildings at the end of June – an increase of 70 in three months.
Almost half of those buildings are in Glasgow, where 108 assessments were underway. There were another 42 in Edinburgh and 21 in Aberdeen.
Of the 219 buildings being assessed, 140 are estimated to be at least 18 metres high and another 79 are between 11 and 18 metres.
Urgent interim measures were in place at 22 buildings at the end of June. These measures are used when an assessor identifies an immediate risk to human life which is considered unacceptable.
They can include waking watches, installing fire alarms and changing evacuation procedures while permanent work is arranged.
Scotland’s programme covers eligible residential buildings at least 11 metres tall with external wall cladding.
A total of 1,799 expressions of interest were submitted through the government’s Single Open Call.
Of those, 956 have been identified as likely to qualify for Scottish Government funding for a Single Building Assessment, while 843 were considered ineligible.
The Scottish Government has provided councils with funding to carry out assessments relating to 376 expressions of interest.
The Cladding Remediation Programme has spent £21.6 million since 2021/22.
A further £31.5 million was transferred to councils earlier this year to fund assessments and associated measures.
Edinburgh received the largest allocation at £8.7 million, followed by North Lanarkshire with £7.7 million, Fife with £3.6 million and Falkirk with £2.2 million.
Aberdeen received £1.8 million, South Lanarkshire £1.7 million and Highland £1.5 million.
Developers are separately responsible for assessing and remediating some buildings they constructed.
Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey, Barratt Redrow, Miller Homes and Bellway had reported responsibility for 122 buildings by the end of June.
Assessments were underway at 31 of those buildings, while one had completed an assessment and identified remediation work.
The Scottish Government introduced legislation giving ministers greater powers to identify and address unsafe cladding following concerns about the pace of remediation.
The latest figures nevertheless show that the number of formally completed government-funded assessments remained unchanged for nine months to the end of June, while hundreds of buildings remained at an earlier stage of the process.