This week, I received a response from the Welsh Government to the UK RAAC Campaign Group’s Open Letter on the RAAC National Crisis. The reply, sent from an official Buildings Safety Wales email address, was unsigned (click here to read letter).
The content of the letter was courteous, but ultimately illustrative of the problem homeowners across the UK now face: widespread recognition of harm, paired with a persistent reluctance to accept responsibility or show leadership.
What the Welsh Government said
In summary, the Welsh Government response confirmed that:
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Policy responsibility for RAAC rests with the UK Government;
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The Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government has forwarded our letter to the UK Housing Minister for consideration; and
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The Welsh Government remains “committed to working collaboratively” with other governments.
What it did not do is more telling.
What the Welsh Government did not address
The reply did not:
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Engage with the extensive evidence dossier provided on the historic promotion and regulation of RAAC;
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Acknowledge the growing number of Welsh homeowners affected;
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Refer to the findings or pressure arising from the Welsh Petitions Committee;
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Commit to joint action with the Scottish Government;
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State a position on a UK-wide National RAAC Fund; or
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Support calls for a public inquiry into how this material was promoted, regulated, missed, and in some cases concealed.
Most concerningly, the response was unsigned. At a time when families are living with unsafe homes, displacement, debt and deteriorating mental health, the absence of a named official is not a trivial procedural issue. It signals distance, not accountability.
Passing the problem is not leadership
Our Open Letter did not ask devolved governments to take sole responsibility for a crisis rooted in pre-devolution decisions. On the contrary, it set out clearly why this is a UK-wide building safety failure, requiring a UK-funded national remedy.
However, devolved governments are not powerless bystanders.
They have:
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A duty to advocate for their citizens;
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A platform to apply coordinated political pressure; and
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A responsibility to speak plainly when Westminster fails to act.
Forwarding correspondence to a UK Minister is not the same as leadership. It is administration.
Why devolved pressure matters
RAAC was promoted, specified and installed during a period of centralised UK control. The consequences are now being managed unevenly across devolved nations, while England continues to under-identify the scale of the problem due to weaker regulatory intervention.
This creates a distorted national picture that allows the UK Government to minimise the crisis and delay action.
Only visible, coordinated pressure from Scotland and Wales—speaking with one voice—can correct that imbalance.
Homeowners are not asking for sympathy
They are asking for:
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Fairness;
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Consistency;
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Restoration to their pre-RAAC financial position or fully funded remediation; and
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An honest reckoning with how this failure occurred.
They are also asking for something more basic: for governments to stop treating this as a problem to be passed on, reframed, or quietly managed, and to start treating it as a national injustice that demands resolution.
What happens next
The UK RAAC Campaign Group has written back to the Welsh Government requesting:
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A named response;
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A clear position on a National RAAC Fund and Public Inquiry; and
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Transparency on what steps are being taken to press the UK Government for action.
Thousands of families are watching. Not for warm words, but for evidence that leadership still exists in public life.
Silence, deflection, and unsigned letters are not solutions.
Action is.
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