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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the rate of use of external fire wall review forms in the last six months.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) launched the EWS1 form on 16 December 2019, for use by industry. Government does not hold data on the number of EWS1 forms which have been completed and expects industry to monitor its use.