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 asked private manufacturers to disclose the large-scale fire tests they have carried out on High Pressure Laminate cladding since June 2017.

In summer 2017, the Department asked Building Research Establishment (BRE) to contact all of their customers to ask them to publish information about large scale tests. BRE contacted their customers who had tested and achieved BR 135 classifications for their external cladding systems. Where permission to publish details of a cladding system has been granted, the BRE produced a database which summarises the generic components included within the successfully tested cladding systems. The data base is available at the following: https://www.bre.co.uk/regulatory-testing

In addition the Department is aware that a number of product manufacturers have voluntarily made this information available on their websites.