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1055815

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on the provision of social housing for people with mental health problems.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	217456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The statutory 'reasonable preference’ requirements ensure that priority for social housing is given to certain people, including those who need to move for medical or welfare reasons. Statutory guidance issued to local authorities in 2012 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/allocation-of-accommodation-guidance-for-local-housing-authorities-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/allocation-of-accommodation-guidance-for-local-housing-authorities-in-england</a>) includes ‘a mental illness or disorder’ as one of the indicators of the medical and welfare reasonable preference category.</p><p>We are consulting on proposals for new statutory guidance for local authorities designed to improve how members of the Armed Forces community are allocated social housing (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/improving-access-to-social-housing-for-members-of-the-armed-forces" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/improving-access-to-social-housing-for-members-of-the-armed-forces</a>). The proposals include setting out how local authorities can ensure that members of the Armed Forces and Veterans suffering from mental ill health are given appropriate priority.</p><p>In the Social Housing Green Paper we set out our intention to undertake an evidence collection exercise to help us understand how the allocations system is working and</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/02/2019 17:04:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1055849

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214560 on Buildings: Insulation, if he will publish the bespoke test methodology which the Building Research Establishment (BRE) has developed.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	217589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>BRE Report Number P111324-1006 (M5D6V1), titled “<em>fire performance of cladding materials research – experimental methodology and performance criteria</em> ”, sets out in detail the proposed methodology. A copy has been placed in the House library.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/02/2019 17:04:46 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1055850

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214560 on Buildings: Insulation, whether building material such as cladding or insulation that fails the bespoke test will be removed.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	217590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s Advice Note 14, issued in December 2017 and updated in December 2018, made clear that if non-Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) materials in cladding systems are not of limited combustibility, or are not part of a wall system which has passed a BS 8414 test, building owners should take professional advice and consider remediation measures, with the clearest way to ensure fire safety being to remove unsafe materials. The forthcoming bespoke test programme is designed to investigate the burning behaviour of selected types of non-ACM cladding products. The Department will consider, in the light of the findings of the tests, and with the advice of the Independent Expert Panel, whether any further action is necessary.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/02/2019 17:01:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1055855

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214560 on Buildings: Insulation, if his Department will publish a consolidated schedule of all the materials that it intends to test before that testing is carried out.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	217591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The current list of materials proposed to be tested has been selected in consultation with the project steering group, which is made up from the cross section of experts in this field.</p><p>The list consists of: zinc composite material, copper composite material, aluminium honeycomb, high pressure laminates, brick slip systems and reconstituted stone.</p><p>Where the composition varies between products within one of these generic material types, more than one product will be investigated.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/02/2019 16:58:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1055857

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214560 on Buildings: Insulation, if his Department will publish guidance for building owners and local authorities with buildings with High-Pressure Laminate cladding before the BS 8414 test is carried out outlining what steps should be taken if that system fails the test.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	217592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Independent Expert Panel has regularly considered the risks of non-Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) and the action the Department should take. As a result, in December 2018, the Department issued updated advice to building owners about how to investigate non-ACM cladding systems on their buildings, and how to remediate them. The Department will consider, in the light of the findings of the research and with the advice of the Independent Expert Panel, whether any further action is necessary.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/02/2019 17:00:36 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1055859

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214560 on Buildings: Insulation, whether his Department will undertake a BS 8414 test on a system with rendered Expanded Polystyrene insulation.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	217593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>There is no intention to do so currently. However, at our request, information on BS 8414 tests carried out by manufacturers and other sponsors has been made available for building owners and their professional advisers. These include several systems using rendered expanded polystyrene insulation.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/02/2019 16:58:41 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1055312

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answers of 24 January 2019 to Question 210599 and 04 February 2019 to Question 214122, whether his Department has informed building owners of the categorisation of the non-aluminium composite material cladding samples that they submitted to the Building Research Establishment for testing.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	217108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s screening test program for Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) was designed to be used on small samples taken from existing buildings to differentiate between the different types of filler material used in ACM cladding using their calorific value. Those who sent in non-ACM samples were informed that, as they were not ACM samples, these samples would not be subject to the screening test. It is not possible to formally classify samples in accordance with the European fire classification system using this procedure.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 217109 question first answered 08/02/2019 13:18:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1055313

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2019 to Question 210599 and the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214122, whether his Department has established the European fire classification of each of the 1,421 non-aluminium composite material cladding samples submitted to the Building Research Establishment for testing.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	217109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s screening test program for Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) was designed to be used on small samples taken from existing buildings to differentiate between the different types of filler material used in ACM cladding using their calorific value. Those who sent in non-ACM samples were informed that, as they were not ACM samples, these samples would not be subject to the screening test. It is not possible to formally classify samples in accordance with the European fire classification system using this procedure.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 217108 question first answered 08/02/2019 13:18:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1055314

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214559 on Buildings: Insulation, what assessment was carried out by his Department's Independent Expert Advisory Panel to conclude that the BS 8414 is a robust test; if he will publish that assessment; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	217110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>Members of the independent expert advisory panel witnessed a series of BS 8414 fire tests commissioned by my department and had full access to the Building Research Establishment’s fire test reports for each of the tests. As such they were able to consider the nature of the test and decide whether it provided the necessary information before issuing detailed advice on cladding systems.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2019 13:19:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1055315

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214559 on Buildings: Insulation, whether the BS 8414 test methodology has changed since the Grenfell Tower fire.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	217111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The current edition of BS 8414 is published in two parts, both were published in 2015. They were subsequently amended on 23 June 2017. This amendment updated the bibliography and did not change the test methodology.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2019 13:19:21 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed