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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2017 to Question HL374, whether an assessment has been made of the extent to which his Department's Approved Document B is effective as a means by which the functional requirements of fire safety may be met.

The Government will consider this issue in light of the Independent Review on Building Regulations and Fire Safety, the findings of the Public Inquiry and on going work to review building safety.