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758966

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date	08/09/2017
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	High Rise Flats: 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 assessment has been made of the fire resistance of residential tower blocks that are (a) under construction or (b) due to begin construction soon in light of the Grenfell Tower fire.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	9698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Tower blocks that are currently under construction or are due to begin construction will be subject to Building Regulations. As such their design will be assessed and then the work will be inspected by independent building control bodies. The Department has commissioned and published the results of a series of BS8414 external wall system fire tests in order to improve the evidence available to developers and building control bodies in determining reasonable compliance with relevant Building Regulations. The test results and commentary from the Expert Panel advising Government can be found at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/building-safety-programme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/building-safety-programme</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643281/Update_and_consolidated_advice_for_building_owners_following_large-scale_testing.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643281/Update_and_consolidated_advice_for_building_owners_following_large-scale_testing.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 18/10/2017 14:47:05 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 11501 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

758967

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
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	Social Rented Housing: Fire Alarms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to publish new advice and regulations on the installation of mandatory fire alarms in communal areas of public housing.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	9671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government will consider these issues in light of the Independent Review on Building Regulations and Fire Safety, the findings of the Public Inquiry and on going work to review building safety.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/10/2017 15:45:05 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 11497 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

758968

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Extinguishers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to require sprinklers to be installed inside all tower blocks, including in privately-owned tower blocks in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	9672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government will consider this issue in light of the Independent Review on Building Regulations and Fire Safety, the findings of the Public Inquiry and on going work to review building safety.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/10/2017 14:32:11 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 11499 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds