Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when Ministers in his Department were informed that buildings of the Queen Victoria boarding school were constructed with RAAC.

Ministers in the Department were informed that Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) had been found in the play-hall at Queen Victoria School on Monday 4 September 2023.

Officials from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation had confirmation that RAAC had been found at Queen Victoria School following a survey carried out by the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) specialist contractor, AECOM and the issuing of their report to the MOD on the 20 April 2023.