Parliamentary Activity

Grenfell Tower Inquiry — 161 mentions in Parliament since Jun 2017

Written Question Commons
13 Nov 2023
Buildings: Safety
Mike Amesbury Labour → Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the recommendations from phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry have been implemented.

Government answer
Home Office The Government published the 6th bi-annual progress tracker on implementation of the Phase 1 recommendations on 29 June on gov.uk and Fire England.This reported that 31 of the 46 recommendations have been completed overall. This includes the following com... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
09 Nov 2023
Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Mike Amesbury Labour → Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when does he expect the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report to be published.

Government answer
Cabinet Office The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is a statutory Inquiry established under the Inquiries Act 2005. Under the terms of the Act, the drafting of an inquiry final report and the timing of that process are both matters for the independent Chair of the inquiry.In the... Read full answer →
Early Day Motion Commons
12 Jun 2023
Sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire

That this House marks with sadness the sixth anniversary of the terrible Grenfell Fire disaster; calls for urgent action from the Government to ensure all buildings are made safe by remedying fire safety defects irrespective of building type, height, tenure or any other characteristics so a disaster like this can never happen again; furthermore wishes to express our solidarity with the Grenfell fire survivors and calls for the Government to finally resolve outstanding issues relating to their...

Written Question Commons
07 Feb 2023
Buildings: Fire Prevention
Mr Clive Betts Labour → Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what additional support his Department plans to make available to timber fire door manufacturers to ensure a smooth transition from the national fire door testing standard BS476 to t

Government answer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The Department welcomes the views of industry on all the measures proposed in our December 2022 consultation, including on testing capacity and transition periods for the proposed changes. In this consultation we are proposing to remove the national class... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
07 Feb 2023
Buildings: Fire Prevention
Mr Clive Betts Labour → Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what information his Department holds on the (a) number of timber fire doors and (b) size of the timber fire door manufacturing sector; and if he will make a statement.

Government answer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The Department welcomes the views of industry on all the measures proposed in our December 2022 consultation, including on testing capacity and transition periods for the proposed changes. In this consultation we are proposing to remove the national class... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
07 Feb 2023
Buildings: Fire Prevention
Mr Clive Betts Labour → Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact on the (a) productivity of and (b) costs to timber fire door manufacturers of the proposed 12-month transition period for moving from the cu

Government answer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The Department welcomes the views of industry on all the measures proposed in our December 2022 consultation, including on testing capacity and transition periods for the proposed changes. In this consultation we are proposing to remove the national class... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
07 Feb 2023
Buildings: Fire Prevention
Mr Clive Betts Labour → Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the benefits to the timber fire door manufacturing sector of moving from the current national fire door testing standard BS476 to the proposed new standard EN1634-

Government answer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The Department welcomes the views of industry on all the measures proposed in our December 2022 consultation, including on testing capacity and transition periods for the proposed changes. In this consultation we are proposing to remove the national class... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
07 Feb 2023
Care Homes: Fire Prevention
Mr Clive Betts Labour → Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's consultation document Sprinklers in care homes, removal of national classes, and staircases in residential buildings published on 23 December 2022,

Government answer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The Department welcomes the views of industry on all the measures proposed in our December 2022 consultation, including on testing capacity and transition periods for the proposed changes. In this consultation we are proposing to remove the national class... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
07 Feb 2023
Buildings: Fire Prevention
Mr Clive Betts Labour → Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an estimate of the testing site capacity required to carry-out fire door tests for the new EN1634-1 classification within the proposed 12-month transi

Government answer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The Department welcomes the views of industry on all the measures proposed in our December 2022 consultation, including on testing capacity and transition periods for the proposed changes. In this consultation we are proposing to remove the national class... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
07 Feb 2023
Buildings: Fire Prevention
Mr Clive Betts Labour → Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

To ask the Secretary for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has had discussions with the timber fire door manufacturing sector on his Department's proposals to remove the national classification BS476 for fire door resistance from Approved

Government answer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The Department welcomes the views of industry on all the measures proposed in our December 2022 consultation, including on testing capacity and transition periods for the proposed changes. In this consultation we are proposing to remove the national class... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
18 Nov 2022
Buildings: Insulation
Stephen Hammond Conservative → Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in the context of the ongoing Grenfell Tower Inquiry, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing forward further legislative proposals to (a) hold to account and

Government answer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The Government brought forward extensive protections for leaseholders through the Building Safety Act 2022, enabling those responsible for historical safety defects to be pursued and held to account. It also provides for leaseholders and other interested ... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
18 Jul 2022
High Rise Flats: Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish (a) all correspondence that she and her Department have had with (i) developers and (ii) housing associations on the Grenfell Inquiry's recommendation to make it mandatory for owne

Government answer
Home Office The Department has engaged with many stakeholders in relation to recommendation 33.22e in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s Phase 1 report – that the owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to prepare personal emergency eva... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
18 Jul 2022
Fire and Rescue Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to incorporate the building safety grant agreed following phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry into the base funding provided to fire and rescue services; and if she

Government answer
Home Office The Protection Uplift fund is not currently incorporated into Fire and Rescue Services’ core spending power as it is a ring-fenced grant provided to fund specific capabilities. The Home Office will continue to review how Fire and Rescue Services are best ... Read full answer →
Written Ministerial Statement Lords
18 May 2022
Fire Reform White Paper and improving Fire Safety for the public

I am pleased to make a number of announcements to the House today that set out both the Government’s fire reform agenda and the introduction of a package of fire safety measures that will protect the public for years to come. Taken together, this is about...

Full statement
Home Office I am pleased to make a number of announcements to the House today that set out both the Government’s fire reform agenda and the introduction of a package of fire safety measures that will protect the public for years to come. Taken together, this is about... Read full answer →
Written Ministerial Statement Commons
18 May 2022
Fire Reform White Paper and improving Fire Safety for the public

My Noble Friend the Minister of State, Home Office and Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (Lord Greenhalgh) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am pleased to make a number of announcements to the House today that s...

Full statement
Home Office My Noble Friend the Minister of State, Home Office and Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (Lord Greenhalgh) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:I am pleased to make a number of announcements to the House today that s... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
18 Mar 2022
Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Gareth Thomas Labour → Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will publish its next quarterly progress report on the implementation of recommendations from phase 1 of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, to follow the previous report of September 2021

Government answer
Home Office The Government intends to publish the next progress report on the implementation of the recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase One report in April. Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
16 Mar 2022
High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the cost to residential leaseholders of ensuring tall buildings meet (a) building and (b) fire safety regulations following the Fire Safety Act.

Government answer
Home Office An impact assessment for the Fire Safety Act 2021 was published alongside its introduction on 12 March 2020 and is available here Impact Assessment (parliament.uk).The Government intends to lay fire safety regulations to implement the majority of the reco... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
18 Feb 2022
Electric Scooters: Storage

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department plans to issue to housing associations and local authorities on the safe storage of e-scooters in the context of recent fires involving those scooters.

Government answer
Home Office The Home Office has a programme to update Fire Safety Order guidance which will reflect the latest legislative and policy positions when they are published over the next year to support the regulations to implement Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommend... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
04 Feb 2022
Electric Scooters: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department is providing to local authorities and housing associations on the safe storage of e-scooters, in response to recent fires.

Government answer
Home Office The Home Office has a programme to update Fire Safety Order guidance which will reflect the latest legislative and policy positions when they are published over the next year to support the regulations to implement Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommend... Read full answer →
Written Question Lords
25 Jan 2022
Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Lord Taylor of Warwick Non-affiliated → Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to set up a national oversight mechanism for the Grenfell Inquiry to monitor the implementation of recommendations from (1) inquests, and (2) inquiries.

Government answer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The Government accepted, in principle, all of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s Phase 1 recommendations for central government. I chair the quarterly Grenfell Inquiry Recommendations Board to monitor progress against these recommendations and a tracker is publ... Read full answer →
Early Day Motion Commons
17 Jan 2022
Shareholders in firms linked to the Grenfell Tower fire or building safety defects

That this House notes that Arconic's Reynobond, Kingspan's K15 Kooltherm and Saint-Gobain Celotex foam insulation products have been found to be highly flammable and dangerously combustible; notes the statement by the Association of Residential Managing Agents that nearly £50,000 may be the average cost of remediating building safety defects including flammable cladding or insulation; understands the reason for the revocation of Kingspan's proposed sponsorship of Mercedes Formula One team; re...

Early Day Motion Commons
19 Jul 2021
Unsafe cladding and building safety defects

That this House notes with concern the large number of people who, four years after the Grenfell Tower fire, are still living in blocks with unsafe cladding and other building safety defects; is aware that that situation is causing great concern and distress to leaseholders who are currently unable to sell their homes; believes that leaseholders should not have to pay for the cost of replacing cladding, fixing defects, waking watches and higher insurance bills; recognises that leaseholders do...

Written Question Commons
19 Jul 2021
Buildings: Fire Prevention
Neil Coyle Labour → Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of delays to post-Grenfell fire safety works on the level of costs incurred by (a) the London Fire Brigade and (b) other local fire authorities.

Government answer
Home Office The Government is clear that building safety is the responsibility of building owners. To help increase the pace of remediation, the Government has made £5 billion of taxpayer funding available for the remediation of unsafe cladding on high rise residenti... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
02 Jul 2021
Kingspan Group: Insulation
Shabana Mahmood Labour → Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what further steps his Department has taken, in addition to writing an open letter to building control companies, in response to Kingspan Insulation Ltd withdrawing the three tes

Government answer
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government On 10 March 2021 we issued a letter to fire safety professionals and building control bodies reminding them that Kingspan has retracted three test reports. The letter is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-to-building-control... Read full answer →
Written Question Commons
11 May 2021
Housing: Disability
Shabana Mahmood Labour → Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure people with disabilities, who live in buildings with fire safety faults, are guaranteed a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan by building managing agents.

Government answer
Home Office The Home Office will be consulting on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) in high-rise residential settings shortly. This consultation follows the recent Fire Safety Consultation (FSC) which sought views on the recommendations in the Grenfell Towe... Read full answer →