Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2019 to Question 6702, on Buildings: Fires, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of these publications on fire safety in the construction sector.
This work is regularly commissioned by the Department as part of an ongoing contract relating to the investigation of fire incidents. Through this contract BRE Global investigate issues that may have implications for Building Regulations and the guidance that supports Building Regulations, such as the Approved Documents. An important element of this contract is to ensure that findings from fire investigations are made available to the fire community and other stakeholders. We always review the need for these type of publications before commissioning them.