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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on tower blocks in Wolverhampton which are clad in flammable substances.

We have not been informed of any high rise residential buildings in Wolverhampton where combustible material has been identified by the Building Research Establishment’s (BRE) testing programme. However, NHS Improvement did confirm on Tuesday 18 July that a cladding sample from an in-patient unit at New Cross Hospital, part of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, had been screened as not being of limited combustibility in the test being carried out at BRE.