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 March 2019 to Question 229147 on Buildings: Insulation, whether Department has consulted the (a) Fire Protection Association and (b) Association of British Insurers on the build-up of the test.

The Independent Expert Panel agreed with the Department to commission this BS 8414 test.

The test will be built up in line with normal industry good practice and fire barriers will be arranged similarly to those used in previous BS 8414 tests commissioned by the Department. For example, the BS 8414 tests carried out on Aluminium Composite Material in summer 2017.

The Fire Protection Association and Association of British Insurers were not consulted.