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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on what date his Department commissioned the Building Research Establishment to produce the report External Fire Spread published in April 2016.

The research supporting the report External Fire Spread, was commissioned under a framework agreement with BRE Global, which started in November 2012. The research was commissioned at the end of 2014

A copy of the report is available at: https://www.bregroup.com/projects-reports/external-fire-spread/.