Built Environment Committee
23 June 2026
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Built Environment Committee House of Lords
00:03 - 01:19
Speaker 3
Good morning. Welcome to the Built Environment Committee. This is the first evidence session of our inquiry into new towns, the third of our inquiries, and entitled Bricks and Mortar. We're very fortunate today, joining us we've got three experts in the field. Katherine Adams, who is technical director at the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products.
David Hopkins, the chief executive of Timber Development UK. And Rebecca Larkin, head of construction research at the Construction Products Association. Welcome to you all. And David, do feel free to take your jacket off because we are all struggling with heat. We're very grateful that you are with us today.
And we've got quite a lot to get through and therefore, as always, we're asking people to keep their questions and answers short. And you don't all have to answer every question. If you feel one of you is best placed, and some will be, for example, about timber more specifically, maybe other products, just judge between yourselves who's best placed to answer. So will you introduce yourselves very briefly before we actually get to the questions? Katherine, you can start.
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