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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will define the terms (a) high rise, (b) tower block and (c) multi-storey for the purposes of the building safety review to be carried out as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire.

For the purposes of the review being conducted by the Government’s expert panel, high rise, tower block and multi-storey are defined as residential properties over 18 metres in height. This is the height at which relevant and additional fire safety requirements are triggered by paragraph 12.7 of Building Regulations Fire Safety Approved Document B guidance.