High Rise Flats: Insulation

(asked on 20th January 2020) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the classification was of the (a) cladding and (b) insulation on the Cube student halls building in Bolton which caught fire in November 2019.


Answered by
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 23rd January 2020

The insulation was 90mm thick polyisocyanurate (PIR), we do not have information on the reaction to fire classification of either the cladding and insulation.

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