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 13 January 2020 to Question 1399, on Care Homes: Insulation, whether his Department is making an assessment of the potential merits of adding care homes with a top occupied storey below 18 metres to the list of buildings to which the ban on combustible building materials applies.

As stated in the explanatory memorandum, the Department intends to review the ban annually through monitoring arrangements and advice from bodies such as Building Regulations Advisory Committee for England. This will include considering the scope of the ban.

The Department is currently undertaking this review and will report shortly.