Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's Building Safety Programme: Monthly Data Release, published on 14 September 2018, whether the Government plans to conduct further testing on the 1,393 samples held at the Building Research Establishment containing non-aluminium composite material combustible cladding materials.
The Building Research Establishment has informed building owners where samples of cladding materials submitted under the Government’s screening programme were not aluminium composite material and has catalogued those samples for further consideration by the Department in its on-going work to assess potential risks associated with non - Aluminium Composite Materials (ACM) cladding. The Department has also commissioned Building Research Establishment to undertake further research into non - ACM cladding materials.