The chair of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Clive Betts, has written to housing minister Lee Rowley asking for “clarity on the timeline” for the long-awaited government’s response to the construction products testing review.

The government has failed to engage with the results of a key product testing review that itself had commissioned, one of the report’s authors told a Commons select committee this week.

The government has published the long-awaited Independent Review of the Construction Product Testing Regime – with a major shake-up in the regulatory system likely to follow.