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Rich_G
Which is often good enough - depending on why it was put there - in the picture @apc posted, for example, a gravel soakaway, cut against the wall, would stop the worst of the wicking up the rendered bit.
I'd go so far as to suggest, though, that a cement plinth / parging as an effort to mitigate damp is utterly bonkers.