4: PAC conclusion: We continue to be concerned about the Department’s understanding of asbestos within the school estate. 4: PAC recommendation: The Department should urgently chase the remaining 7% of schools who are yet to respond to the asbestos management survey. The Department should write to the Committee within six months setting out its full understanding of asbestos across the estate, detailing the asbestos risk arising from the non-responders, along with its plans to manage the asbestos risk in schools. 4.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: September 2022 4.2 The asbestos management survey (AMAP) was a voluntary survey launched in 2018. The vast majority of schools chose to participate in the process. The department followed up several times throughout the process with those who had not responded. It published a report of overall findings in 2019 which did not identify any systemic issues with the management of asbestos across the estate. In July 2021, the department wrote again to the remaining non- responders, and AMAP closed in November 2021. The department is sharing details of remaining non-responders with its regional teams and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to inform their risk-based approach to compliance, including their future programme of inspections. 4.3 In addition, all schools in England are currently being visited through the second Condition Data Collection programme (CDC2), which includes a preliminary meeting to check whether schools are complying with the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. A comprehensive picture of this information across all schools in England will be available when final CDC2 data is published. In the meantime, the department will give a progress update to the Committee in September 2022.