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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. The
Department then reinforced the content of that letter in it’s 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><p>We
are committed to looking at wider issues following the Grenfell Tower fire and this
work will now need to be informed by any recommendations that the independent inquiry
makes.</p><p>We have appointed an expert panel to advise us on immediate steps to
be taken following the Grenfell Tower fire, and will act on those recommendations
where necessary. The role of the expert panel and the advice already given is set
out in a note published last week 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>
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