Following the Grenfell Tower fire, the UK Government  commissioned fire safety tests of non-ACM cladding, including a test commissioned on High Pressure Laminate (HPL) cladding, the results of which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-test-report-mhclg-bs-8414-hpl

While the particular HPL cladding system tested passed the fire safety test, the expert advice is that it is likely that other configurations of HPL cladding systems may not.

The Scottish Government has issued a questionnaire, to be completed by all care homes in Scotland, to gather data on HPL cladding in buildings across Scotland. A report will be prepared for the Ministerial Working Group on Building and Fire Safety once the data on HPL cladding in care homes has been collected.

We have agreed to issue the HPL data collection questionnaire on behalf of the Scottish government to every care home service in Scotland. You should complete and return your questionnaire by 22 February 2020. If you will be unable to submit your questionnaire by 22 February 2020 then you should notify This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than 22 January 2020.

Instructions, guidance and the address for submission, are enclosed in the questionnaire. For any queries, please contact William Welsh on 0131 528 5712 or e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

This exercise is about care homes with external HPL cladding installed and that have any single building with a floor area of 200m² or more. Care homes that match this definition should complete the questionnaire for each building that has external HPL cladding installed.

Care homes that do not have any single building with a floor area of 200m² or more should complete the questionnaire by submitting a NIL Return.

Read the letter to us from Scottish Government here. 

Complete the questionnaire here.