Question follow-through · 30257
High Rise Flats: Insulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to require the removal of all combustible material from residential buildings over 18 metres in height.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 19 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to require the removal of all combustible material from residential buildings over 18 metres in height.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Feb 2025
Answer published
On 29 November 2018, the Government banned the use of combustible materials in the external walls of new high-rise residential buildings over 18 metres in height. The ban also applies to new hospitals, residential care premises, dormitories in boarding sc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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