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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214560 on Buildings: Insulation, whether his Department will undertake a BS 8414 test on a system with rendered Expanded Polystyrene insulation.

There is no intention to do so currently. However, at our request, information on BS 8414 tests carried out by manufacturers and other sponsors has been made available for building owners and their professional advisers. These include several systems using rendered expanded polystyrene insulation.