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773106

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library copies of all correspondence between his Department and the Local Government Association on fire safety in the last 3 months.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	108490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>To provide all the correspondence between my Department and the Local Government Association, on fire safety in the last 3 months, would place a disproportionate cost on the Department.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/11/2017 16:22:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

777726

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in ensuring that (a) adequate fire safety arrangements and (b) appropriate fire drills, including evacuations, are carried out for (i) hospitals, (ii) schools, (iii) care homes and (iv) women's refuges.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	109675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, a responsible person (usually the employer or building owner) must carry out regularly a fire risk assessment and ensure effective fire safety arrangements are in place, and maintained, to protect all those using the premises.</p><p>Local fire and rescue authorities are the enforcing authorities in the majority of premises which the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies. Under the National Framework for Fire and Rescue in England, each authority must determine its own risk-based inspection programme and have in place a management strategy for enforcing its provisions.</p><p>It is for competent fire safety officers in each authority to consider, on the basis of their audit and/or inspection findings, whether the general fire precautions in place in any particular premises are sufficient to comply with the requirements of the Order. Where shortcomings are identified, fire and rescue authorities have a range of enforcement powers, up to and including prosecution, to ensure any necessary improvements are made.</p><p>Details of the number and outcome of fire and rescue authority audits under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in 2016/17 are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-prevention-and-protection-statistics-england-april-2016-to-mach-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-prevention-and-protection-statistics-england-april-2016-to-march-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/10/2017 15:54:11 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

782666

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2017 to Question 108490, on fire prevention, whether his Department plans to publish future correspondence between his Department and the Local Government Association of fire safety.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	111169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>My Department publishes correspondence on a case by case basis where there is a public interest in doing so.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/11/2017 14:01:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

789997

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2017 to Question 111169, on fire prevention, who in his Department is responsible for decisions on the publication of that correspondence.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	113310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>Such decisions are taken by Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 23/11/2017 16:22:44 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

732574

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he made any private assurances to the Chair of the Local Government Association on action and funding from the Government to ensure fire safety in the wake of the fire at Grenfell Tower; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	1205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>My Department has held a number of meetings following the Grenfell Tower fire. Where work is necessary to ensure the fire safety of social housing, we will ensure that lack of financial resources will not prevent it going ahead.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/07/2017 09:39:24 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

733000

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what changes have been made to standard fire safety tests conducted on external cladding since the Grenfell Tower fire.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	1318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>A note explaining the government building safety programme, including an explanation of the methodology being used by the Building Research Establishment to test samples of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding, has been published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/explanatory-note-on-safety-checks-and-testing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/explanatory-note-on-safety-checks-and-testing</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 04/07/2017 15:29:19 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 1410 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

424509

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many statutory Fire Safety Inspections were carried out by English fire and rescue services in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
	tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
	uin	13915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Home Office.</p><p>Fire and rescue services carried out almost 67,300 Fire Safety Audits / Inspections in 2013/14.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 04/02/2016 14:08:52 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

733043

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library the specification of the test that is being applied to the cladding samples provided by local authorities to his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	1419
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>A note explaining the government building safety programme, including an explanation of the methodology being used by the Building Research Establishment to test samples of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) panels, has been published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/explanatory-note-on-safety-checks-and-testing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/explanatory-note-on-safety-checks-and-testing</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/07/2017 12:37:46 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

733079

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what financial support the Government plans to provide to local authorities who have evacuated residents from buildings following the failure of aluminium composite material tests.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	1426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>It is the landlord’s responsibility to ensure that people are safe through funding fire safety improvements. Where work is necessary to ensure the fire safety of social housing, we will ensure that lack of financial resources will not prevent it going ahead.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/07/2017 09:43:51 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 1411 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

733082

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral statement of 26 June 2017, Official Report, column 347, what the membership is of the independent panel of experts on fire safety.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	1430
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The Panel is made up of a range of building and fire safety experts, and is chaired by Sir Ken Knight, former London Fire Commissioner and former Government Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser.</p><p>Other core members of the panel are Dr Peter Bonfield, Chief Executive of the Building Research Establishment, Roy Wilsher, Chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council and Amanda Clack, President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Partner at EY. The panel have a wealth of experience in fire and building safety, including testing processes. They will also draw in wider technical expertise as necessary to inform their advice to the Communities Secretary</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/07/2017 16:06:23 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq