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 11 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation, if he could clarify the legal effect of the Building Research Establishment's methodology in relation to the use of cladding materials on existing buildings.

The methodology establishes the focus and the methods of the research. The Department will consider in the light of the findings of the research, and with the advice of the Independent Expert Panel, whether any further action is necessary.