Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2020, to Question 3225 on Care Homes: Insulation, when his Department plans to issue a formal consultation on banning combustible materials on care homes and sheltered housing below 11 metres in height.

The Department is seeking views on the ban of the use of combustible materials in and on external walls of buildings, including building types covered and the height threshold. The consultation closes 13 April 2020 and is available at :

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/review-of-the-ban-on-the-use-of-combustible-materials-in-and-on-the-external-walls-of-buildings