Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) high-rise residential buildings over 30 metres in England and (b) flats in those buildings.

The Building Safety Programme is in the process of identifying the residential buildings over 18 metres with Aluminium Composite Material cladding. The 18 metres threshold in Approved Document B is the height above which the components of an external wall system should be of limited combustibility. This threshold was chosen because this represents the height at which a fire on an external wall could be tackled from outside the building by the fire service using standard equipment.

The latest figures on identified residential buildings over 18 metres are published on the Building Safety Programme webpage at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/building-safety-programme.