Grenfell Tower Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Grenfell Tower

Rushanara Ali Excerpts
Thursday 22nd June 2017

(7 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. We will have to wrap up at 10 past 11, so we will do what we can between now and then.

Rushanara Ali Portrait Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow) (Lab)
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Residents of Grenfell Tower warned the housing provider of the dangers and said that it would take a fire in a tower block for notice to be taken. Will the Prime Minister relook at the Localism Act 2011, which currently requires residents to allow for eight weeks before they can make a complaint to the ombudsman for a matter to be taken up through their Members of Parliament?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising an issue that has not been raised with me before. I will look at the Localism Act. I think that there are reasons why that period of time was put into the Act. She is right that the issue of the response of the tenant management organisation has been raised, and that it needs to be looked at by the inquiry as it looks into the reasons for the fire.