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 given of 25 July 2018 to Question 164527 on Buildings: Insulation, how many high-rise student accommodation blocks above 18 meters there are in England and Wales with rainscreen cladding.

The Government’s Building Safety Programme is tracking the remediation of residential buildings over 18 metres with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems. We do not hold the relevant information for any buildings with other rainscreen cladding systems. We can confirm that as of 12 October 2018 there are 62 high-rise (over 18 metres) private sector student accommodation buildings in England with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet current Building Regulations guidance. The relevant figure for Wales is a matter for the devolved administration.