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<p>The Department wrote to all social housing providers in 2013, encouraging them
to act on the recommendations in a Coroner’s report into firefighter deaths which
occurred at Shirley Towers in Southampton in April 2010. That letter encouraged providers
to consider the retrofitting of sprinklers in older residential tower blocks. A copy
of the letter has been placed in the Library of the House.</p><p>The Department then
reinforced the content of that letter in its response to the Coroner’s report into
the Lakanal House Fire – a copy of which can be found at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/205567/Annex_B_-_SoS_DCLG_Rule_43_response.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/205567/Annex_B_-_SoS_DCLG_Rule_43_response.pdf</a></p>
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