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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment the Government has made of the effectiveness of new fire extinguishing technologies, such as internal ventilation systems, to delay or prevent fires from spreading.

The Government continues to assess new and emerging fire protection technologies through both ongoing industry engagement and through participation in the development of standards (e.g. the British Standards Institution committee FSH/18 - fixed fire-fighting systems).