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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the (a) relative fire risk and (b) consequent need for waking watches in high-rise buildings with unsafe cladding containing (i) ACM and (ii) HPL.

The Department recently published consolidated advice from the Independent Expert Advisory Panel, titled ‘Building safety advice for building owners, including fire doors’ , which encompasses advice to building owners on unsafe external wall systems (including short-term interim mitigating measures). The advice can be found at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-advice-for-building-owners-including-fire-doors.

The Department has also published a call for evidence on fire safety risk prioritisation in existing buildings, which ends on 17 February 2020 and can be found at: www.gov.uk/government/consultations/fire-safety-risk-prioritisation-in-existing-buildings-a-call-for-evidence.