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Grenfell inquiry: Fire safety guidance should ‘perhaps’ have been updated sooner

A coroner’s warning to update fire safety guidance five years before the Grenfell tragedy should “perhaps” have been acted upon sooner, a Government official has said. Bob Ledsome, who works for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and ...

02 Mar 2022 at 16:25

Civil servants got Grenfell Tower name wrong during response, inquiry hears

A senior civil servant has told the Grenfell Tower inquiry she found it “jarring” that staff in her department were getting the name of the building wrong in the days following the disaster. Dame Melanie Dawes, the Permanent Secretary of ...

26 May 2022 at 18:38

Housing department ‘unequipped’ to handle insulation warning – Grenfell Inquiry

The Department for Housing was “unequipped” to deal with a 2014 warning that “combustible” insulation was being used in buildings over 18 metres high, a former Government official has told the Grenfell Inquiry. Richard Harral was head ...

08 Mar 2022 at 18:55

Brandon Lewis among MPs to give evidence at Grenfell Tower inquiry

Current and former MPs will give evidence at the Grenfell Tower inquiry amid union calls for politicians to be held to account. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis will on Wednesday be the first politician appear as a witness at ...

30 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Government played ‘shocking’ role in building deregulation before Grenfell fire

The Government played a “shocking” role in deregulating building safety before the Grenfell Tower fire, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) chief has said. The near-1,700 page public inquiry report into the blaze was published on ...

04 Sept 2024 at 16:01

Bring criminal prosecutions against Grenfell Tower cladding firms, urges Gove

Former housing secretary Michael Gove has said criminal prosecutions should be brought against Grenfell Tower cladding firms. Companies that are “still making vast profits without acknowledging their full responsibility” ...

08 Sept 2024 at 10:48

Grenfell survivors’ group ‘speechless’ after ex-minister gets death toll wrong

A Grenfell Tower survivors’ group has said it is “speechless” after a former Cabinet minister got the number of people who died in the fire wrong while giving evidence to an inquiry. Lord Eric Pickles, who was secretary ...

07 Apr 2022 at 20:25

London Fire Brigade ‘failed to heed warnings of high-rise fire before Grenfell’

A fatal fire at a housing block in 2009 should have alerted the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to the “shortcomings” in its ability to fight blazes in high-rise buildings, the final report of the inquiry into the Grenfell ...

04 Sept 2024 at 11:45

Lord Pickles sorry he ‘misspoke’ in getting Grenfell death toll wrong

A peer and former Cabinet minister has apologised, saying he “misspoke” when he got the number of people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire wrong as he appeared before an inquiry. Lord Eric Pickles, giving evidence ...

11 Apr 2022 at 16:55

Decades of failure led to deadly Grenfell Tower fire, final report concludes

The devastating Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people was the result of “decades of failure” by government and the construction industry to act on the dangers of flammable materials on high-rise buildings, a ...

04 Sept 2024 at 13:03

Justice against those responsible for Grenfell fire ‘may be delayed until 2030’

Justice against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower blaze could be delayed until 2030, a former director of public prosecutions (DPP) has warned following the end of the inquiry into the 2017 block fire. It ...

05 Sept 2024 at 23:12

Deregulation drive meant safety concerns ‘ignored’ before Grenfell – inquiry

A government drive for deregulation meant concerns about the safety of life were “ignored, delayed or disregarded” in the years before the Grenfell Tower fire, the inquiry into the disaster has found. In its ...

04 Sept 2024 at 12:18

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