A Kingspan director has denied that his failure to mention a rigged cladding test at a previous hearing of the Grenfell Inquiry was an attempt to mislead the public.

Adrian Pargeter, the Irish insulation giant’s UK director of technical, marketing and regulatory affairs said that his “powers of recollection…deserted me” during the hearing in December last year.

Pargeter had failed to mention a May 2018 test on a non-combustible cladding system which Kingspan had engineered to fail as part of a lobbying campaign to persuade the government not to ban combustible cladding systems.

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