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 11 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation, for what reasons his Department has decided to use a bespoke test methodology.
The test is designed to investigate the behaviour in a fire of the cladding materials being tested in a way that identifies risks that might not be identified in a standardised classification test. The test methodology was developed in consultation with an expert steering group.