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 17 January 2019 to Question 208362 on Buildings: Insulation, how many of the 1,421 non-aluminium composite material cladding samples submitted to the Building Research Establishment for testing were (a) metal composite material cladding, (b) high-pressure laminate cladding and (c) expanded polystyrene insulation in external wall insulation systems.

None of the samples submitted for screening tests are recorded as (a) metal composite material cladding, (b) high-pressure laminate cladding and (c) expanded polystyrene insulation in external wall insulation systems.

However the following categories of samples could have included these types of products; 231 samples were categorised as containing ‘Metal’ and comprised more than one layer. Samples categorised as boarding will have included high-pressure laminate as well as other board products such as plasterboard, there were 172 of these samples. 134 samples were categorised as rendered EPS (Expanded Polystyrene).