Two of the remaining four housebuilders who were ‘named and shamed’ by Michael Gove for missing a cladding contract deadline are closer to signing.

The housing secretary last month in parliament listed 11 housebuilders who had missed a six-week deadline to sign the contract, which gives legal force to a pledge to remediate their own blocks over 11m going back 30 years. Gove has threatened to put the housebuilders out of business if they don’t sign.

All but four of the 11 housebuilders have now signed.