Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral contribution on 9 May 2019, Official Report column 687 on Buildings with ACM Cladding, by which metrics his Department has determined that Aluminium Composite Material cladding poses an exceptional risk compared to other forms of cladding.

The Government’s views of the risks of aluminium composite material panels, reflecting the advice of the independent expert advisory panel, has been set out on a number of occasions in the various advice notes issued since the building safety programme was set up in Summer 2017.