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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the average waiting time to receive an External Wall Fire Review form (EWS1) for buildings with recently remediated cladding in the most recent period for which figures are available.

An EWS1 form is not a statutory requirement nor ​a​ safety ‘test’. It is a form used for valuation and was introduced by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), together with UK Finance and the Building Societies Association. The Government is therefore not able to estimate the waiting time to receive an EWS1.