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Kingspan has written to the government to dispute a claim heard at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry that it tried to mislead MPs over safety tests.
In December, on the day the public inquiry was paused after a member of its team tested positive for COVID-19, the inquiry heard accusations that the firm misled politicians, including Clive Betts, the chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, over fire-safety performance.
Counsel to the inquiry Richard Millett quizzed Kingspan’s director of technical, marketing and internal affairs Adrian Pargeter about a letter sent to politicians looking at the safety of building materials in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. He said that the company sent Betts a letter claiming that properly installed combustible material was no more dangerous than non-combustible material with the firm citing tests it had put together itself and “gamed” to make the non-combustible material deliberately perform worse.