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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has a policy on the use of fire-resistant glazing in high rise residential blocks.

The Government does not specify which materials or approaches to construction should be used to meet the requirements of the building regulations, as a prescriptive approach would limit the ability for innovation.

Developers and designers should use the guidance in Approved Document B to decide whether fire resistant glazing or fire resistant material in corridors could be used to meet the requirements of the regulations in the construction of buildings.