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Philip Hammond shouldn't be surprised the Reynobond PE cladding is Class 0 certified under British regs, by the manufacturer (even though they also classify it as combustible under French regs). After all, he is one of the co-creators of our great, deregulated austerity utopia.

Reynobond, the manufacturers, do clearly state that they offer three ACM cladding products, two with european fire ratings (A2 & B) and one without;

PE - combustible - for buildings up to 10m high
FR - fire resistant - for buildings up to 30m high
A2 - non-combustible - for buildings above 30m high

They also say the designers choice is crucial, as fire can spread to the whole building extremely rapidly.

It would seem inconsistent to regularly update Part L, encouraging overcladding for heat loss, but not to review Part B since the Tories took office. Unless you're concerned a review might require costly sprinkler systems to be installed in thousands of older tower blocks.
Especially in towers like Grenfell and its immediate neighbours, with only one means of escape and no fire alarm for the building as a whole, only individual smoke alarms.