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<Text>The Welsh Ministers must prepare a remediation progress report for each reporting period.</Text>
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<Text>A “remediation progress report” is a report summarising the Welsh Ministers’ assessment of progress during the reporting period in carrying out—</Text>
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<Text>works required by developer remediation contracts;</Text>
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<Text>works funded by grants made by the Welsh Ministers under schemes known as the Welsh Building Safety Fund.</Text>
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<Text>The Welsh Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each reporting period—</Text>
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<Text>publish the remediation progress report for the reporting period, and</Text>
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<Text>lay it before Senedd Cymru.</Text>
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<Text>In this section—</Text>
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<Text>“<Term id="term-developer-remediation-contract">developer remediation contract</Term>” (“<Term><Emphasis>contract cyweirio gan ddatblygwr</Emphasis></Term>”) means a contract between the Welsh Ministers and a participant developer made by a deed of bilateral contract relating to developer self-remediation to deliver safe residential and mixed-use buildings of 11 metres and over in height;</Text>
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