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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the (a) advice and (b) correspondence that his Department has received on the estimated number of residential tower blocks where properties have been made unsaleable due to the requirements set out in Advice Note 14.

The government is working with industry to understand the scope and scale of the issue. This includes supporting the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and ensuring that wider industry gain greater information and assurance about the external wall systems of high-rise residential buildings.