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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the relative fire safety danger posed by Fire Resistant Aluminium Composite cladding combined with phenolic insulation compared with High Pressure Laminate cladding.

The independent Expert Advisory Panel has provided clear advice to building owners with regards to the materials in the external walls of existing buildings. The advice was consolidated into a single document and was published on 20 January 2020: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/859285/Building_safety_advice_for_building_owners__including_fire_doors_-_January_2020.pdf

The advice is clear that the removal of unsafe ACM category 3 panels and actions to remediate unsafe HPL systems should be carried out as soon as possible.