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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the prevalence of insurance companies refusing to insure buildings which have been not been deemed in need of remediation through an EWS1 survey.

We are aware of a very small number of buildings for which insurers have requested that additional remediation plans are put in place in order for them to provide building insurance.

The Department has raised this issue with insurers as part of our ongoing work with the insurance industry to restore confidence in building safety. Ministers continue to press insurance companies and industry bodies to take a more proportionate approach to pricing insurance.