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 28 March 2019 to Question 236427 on Buildings: Insulation, what information his Department holds on instances where the core of Aluminium Composite Material cladding was referred to as (a) filler and (b) filler material before 14 June 2017.

The Building Control Alliance issued guidance to building control bodies in June 2015, which set out that the provisions in paragraph 12. 7 of Volume 2 of Approved Document B for materials to be of limited combustibility should be considered to apply to all elements of the cladding system.