High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his Oral Statement of 3 July 2017, Official Report, column 912, on Grenfell Tower, how many of the 181 samples that failed fire tests had been used alongside (a) stone wool insulation and (b) PIR foam insulation.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 12th September 2017

Summary advice published on 5 September (available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-update-and-consolidated-advice-for-building-owners-following-large-scale-testing) sets out the results of screening tests and the seven large-scale system tests conducted over the summer.

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