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755648

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has estimated how much of insulation used in high-rise and low-rise buildings is (a) polyisocyanurate foam, (b) phenolic foam and (c) mineral wool insulation.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	7453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>We have asked all owners of buildings over 18 metres with Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding to submit samples to the BRE for screening to establish whether the materials submitted are of limited combustibility. Where samples that are sent in do not meet the limited combustibility test we are also collecting information on what insulation materials have been used.</p><p>Summary advice published on 5 September (available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-update-and-consolidated-advice-for-building-owners-following-large-scale-testing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-update-and-consolidated-advice-for-building-owners-following-large-scale-testing</a>) sets out the results of screening tests and the seven large-scale system tests conducted over the summer, and includes the numbers of these buildings which have the type of insulation used.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/09/2017 16:37:26 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

755649

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he will consider a system of binary classification of building cladding material as either combustible or non-combustible.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	7454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government will consider this issue in light of the Independent Review on Building Regulations and Fire Safety, the findings of the Public Inquiry and on going building safety work.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/09/2017 16:39:01 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

755650

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Fire Regulations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether it is his policy to maintain the desktop study route for materials to meet fire safety approval.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	7455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government will consider this issue in light of the Independent Review on Building Regulations and Fire Safety, and on going building safety work.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/09/2017 16:40:43 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

755653

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Wind Power: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of adopting the recommendations of the report of the Northern Ireland Assembly's Committee for the Environment of 2015 on wind energy to replace ETSU-R-97 with a method of measuring loudness that brings wind turbine noise controls in line with other industrial controls.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	7525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Assembly Environment committee made their recommendation to revise wind turbine noise guidelines with a view to considering the noise impact on nearby resident's day to day lives. This issue has been addressed through the written statement covering wind farm applications, made by my Rt Hon Friend Greg Clark MP, the previous Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on 18 June 2015, Official Report, column 9WS: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2015-06-18/HCWS42/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2015-06-18/HCWS42/</a></p><p>Only if the applicant is able to demonstrate that the planning impacts identified by the affected local community have been fully addressed, including noise, can the planning authority grant permission.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/09/2017 16:42:41 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

755655

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will ensure that relevant lessons on fire prevention in high-rise buildings are learned from countries which have a good record of preventing fires in such buildings.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	7514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, led by Dame Judith Hackitt, was announced by the government on 28 July 2017.</p><p>The Terms of Reference were published on 30 August. These make clear that the Review will look at other international regulatory systems for buildings and regulatory systems in other sectors with similar safety risks.</p><p>The Review will draw upon international experience of regulatory frameworks and the frameworks covering other industries as it fully recognises the important contribution it will make in eventual recommendations made to the government.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/09/2017 16:40:08 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

756200

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Building Regulations: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 28 July 2017 to Question 2714, if he will publish research or work commissioned before the Grenfell Tower fire in preparation for the revision of Approved Document B of the Building Regulations.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	8326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government has commissioned Dame Judith Hackitt to carry out an Independent Review of Building Regulations and fire safety. We will make work undertaken on Approved Document B before the Grenfell Tower fire, including research, available to Dame Judith as well as to the public inquiry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/09/2017 16:36:27 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

756893

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Grenfell Tower: Fire Extinguishers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Grenfell Tower was equipped with a functioning wet or dry riser system.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	8193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>I cannot comment on the specific systems used in Grenfell Tower, as this is a matter for the public inquiry and the on going police investigation.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/09/2017 16:43:15 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

757078

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Energy Performance Certificates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what evidence his Department holds on compliance with Article 12 of the Issue of energy performance certificates of the Evaluation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU for buildings (a) rented and (b) leased; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	7880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government has published energy performance certificate data that includes buildings that are rented or let: <a href="https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/" target="_blank">https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/09/2017 16:41:33 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

754551

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has received (a) representations or (b) reports on an increase in discrimination against non-UK EU nationals in respect of access to housing on account of the lack of legal certainty as to the future status of EU citizens in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	6830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>My Department has not received any representations or reports raising concerns about discriminations against EU nationals in respect of access to housing.</p><p>Our policy paper, “<em>Safeguarding the position of EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals living in the EU”</em> published on 26 June, sets out the UK’s fair and serious offer to protect the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. This includes access to social housing for EU nationals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/09/2017 09:06:23 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

754553

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Leasehold: Forfeiture
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether policy on law and practice relating to forfeiture of residential leaseholds has been transferred to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	6785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The policy for forfeiture of residential leaseholds remains with the Ministry of Justice and has not moved to the Department for Communities and Local Government.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/09/2017 09:51:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley