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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department commissioned the Building Research Establishment to write a Frequently Asked Questions document on cladding after the inquest into the Lakanal House fire.

The Department considered and acted on the recommendations of the Coroner's report into the Lakanal House fire in 2009. A note setting out the action the Government took in response to the recommendations was been placed in the Library of the House in September 2017 in response to Question UIN HL1281 on 5 September 2017.

Since the publication of this note we have published a clarified version of Approved Document B available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-approved-document-b .

In December 2018 we started a wide ranging technical review of the guidance in which means of escape in blocks of flat is a key research topic.