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 28 March 2019 to Question 236427, (a) where and (b) when after the publication of the 2006 Edition of Approved Document Part B Volume 2 his Department communicated to the construction industry that filler material in Paragraph 12.7 of that document included the core of Aluminium Composite Material.

The Department will have discussed the Approved Document B guidance in general with the construction industry after it was published but does not hold records of all specific issues which may have been discussed. The Building Control Alliance published its technical guidance note 18 on Use of Combustible Cladding Materials on Buildings Exceeding 18 metres in Height in June 2015 which provided additional clarification.