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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2018 to Question 186415 on Buildings: Insulation, what assessment his Department has made of the risk posed by non-ACM building materials on the external walls of buildings.

In consultation with the Independent Expert Advisory Panel, The Government has also provided advice to building owners about common non-Aluminium Cladding Material (ACM) external wall systems, including ones using Metal Composite Materials, High Pressure Laminates (HPL) or External Wall Insulation (EWI) with a render or brick-slip finish.

We expect building owners to be systematically reviewing the safety of their buildings as a matter of course. We have given building owners clear advice about the steps that should be followed to remediate combustible non-ACM cladding for the longer term. Advice relating to cladding is under constant review and consideration by the Expert Panel which was set up following the Grenfell Tower fire. The Government has also commissioned further research to support further understanding in the industry of the fire performance of external wall systems.