Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2018 to Question 156340 on fire prevention: insulation, what the total expenditure was on that project.

Innovate UK provided £250,000 of funding to the Manufacturing Technology Centre to undertake first stage studies and mathematical model development for simulating methods of removing an replacing cladding on high rise buildings. This has been further supplemented by £110,000, to test the potential for non-destructive test methods that are used in the manufacturing sector to be used on high rise buildings, to identify the materials used in cladding systems and how these have been assembled and attached to the building.