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797379

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
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	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, how much funding has been awarded to local authoiities for the improvement of fire safety in their housing stock since the Grenfell Tower disaster.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	116342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Building owners are responsible for funding fire safety measures in their buildings. If a local authority building owner considers a building to be unsafe, they will need to determine what measures are essential to make a building safe, based on expert advice and taking into account any recommendations or advice from the local fire and rescue service.</p><p>Local authorities should draw on existing resources to implement these measures. However, we will consider the removal of financial restrictions for local authorities where these stand in the way of essential work being done.</p><p>36 local authorities have contacted the Department regarding work to ensure fire safety in tower blocks. We have asked 9 of these authorities to provide more detailed information about essential works. So far, 2 authorities have provided this information and my officials are working with them on their requests.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/12/2017 17:02:24 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 26866 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

778131

registered interest
date	26/10/2017
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	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, pursuant to his oral contribution of 5 September 2017, Official Report, column 76, on Grenfell Tower, if he will publish details of the local authorities that have contacted his Department on funding for remedial work.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	110017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>We have been contacted by thirty two local authorities and that seven of these are in the process of providing more detail after initial conversations. It is a matter for local authorities to communicate with their residents what work is being proposed, and as such I cannot release the details of specific local authorities.</p><p>We have been clear that we expect building owners to fund fire safety measures, but councils should contact us if they have any concerns about funding fire safety works. Where works are necessary to ensure the fire safety of a building, we will ensure that lack of financial resources will not prevent them going ahead.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/11/2017 17:29:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 19114 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

768875

registered interest
date	11/10/2017
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	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, if he will list the local authorities that have made a request for financial assistance for fire safety work in tower blocks; how much such assistance has been requested in each case; whether that has been for grant, loan or extra borrowing approval; and whether the Government has agreed to any additional grant, loan or borrowing approval.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	107115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>I can confirm that 32 local authorities have been in touch with DCLG regarding work to ensure fire safety in tower blocks. We have been clear that building owners are responsible for funding fire safety measures, but councils should contact us if they have any concerns about funding fire safety works. Government will consider financial flexibilities for local authorities who need to undertake essential fire safety work to make a building safe</p><p>It is a matter for local authorities to communicate with their residents what work is being proposed and as such I cannot provide details about specific local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/10/2017 16:18:14 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 14931 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

758966

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 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

751242

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2017 to Question 2992, whether he plans that the resources to ensure the fire safety of social housing will be made available based on new fire safety regulations arising out of the Grenfell Tower fire or on existing fire regulations.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	4750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>It is the landlord’s responsibility to ensure that people are safe, and cost considerations should not get in the way of this. 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 20/07/2017 15:26:45 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 5097 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

750053

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
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 he has made of whether additional costs to local authorities for fire prevention measures in tower blocks will reduce expenditure on the maintenance of other social housing.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	3909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>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 14/07/2017 11:21:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 4338 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

749624

registered interest
date	07/07/2017
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, if he will set out the criteria against which applications for additional funding from local authorities for work to address fire safety in tower blocks will be assessed.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	3700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Where work is necessary to ensure the fire safety of social housing, we will ensure that lack of financial resources will not prevent them going ahead.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 18/07/2017 16:11:57 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 3917 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

748625

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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, if he will list the tower blocks which have been assessed for fire safety since the Grenfell Tower fire and deemed (a) safe and (b) unsafe because (i) the cladding has failed the combustibility test his Department has commissioned and (ii) for other reasons.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	3296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2017 answer text <p>We are currently collecting information from all social housing providers in relation to cladding on tower blocks. Testing is being undertaken by the Building Research Establishment where Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding is identified. We have alerted owners, landlords and managers of private sector residential blocks to the issue and have made the testing facility available to them.</p><p>Where testing of ACM cladding reveals concerns, the priority in the first instance is to work with the relevant local authority and the fire and rescue service to determine the most appropriate course of action. Where we have results for specific areas, and tenants have been informed of the action to be taken, then further details will be released publicly. Local authorities have been asked to contact relevant constituency MPs.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 04/09/2017 14:40:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 3148 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

748083

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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, with reference to the letter of 28 March 2013 from Judge Kirkham to the then Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the conclusion of the Lakanal House fire inquest, what progress his Department has made in supporting the implementation of each of the Coroners' recommendations as set out in that letter.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	2768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government has acted on the recommendations of the Coroner's report into the Lakanal House fire. In relation to the recommendation to simplify the fire safety guidance relating to Building Regulations (Approved Document B), this work was being progressed. Following the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, we will need to consider the position on guidance further alongside the Prime Minister's commitment to look at wider issues. This work will now need to be informed by any recommendations that the independent inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire make.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 13/07/2017 15:38:48 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 3137 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

748088

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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 his Department has made of the effect of removing and reapplying cladding from tower blocks that have failed safety checks on the housing reserves of social landlords that acquired those tower blocks through stock transfer.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	2992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>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 09:26:36 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 3142 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell