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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the letter from David Metcalfe and Dr Stephen Ledbetter of the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology (CWCT) to the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, dated 10 May 2018, whether officials in his Department were part of the group formed by CWCT to discuss fire performance of facades and combustible materials in 2014.

Officials from the Department regularly meet with trade bodies and other representative bodies in order to discuss the application of building regulations to assist them in developing advice for their members. An official attended part of the one meeting the Department was invited to by the CWCT in 2014.