Rushanara Ali
Main Page: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Stepney)
Alok Sharma
I am happy to do that. I met a number of the leaseholders yesterday, and we have asked them to provide us with further information on their leases. We expect to start having individual discussions from next week.
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow) (Lab)
There have been two fires in my constituency and one in a neighbouring constituency since the Grenfell Tower fire, and they were not in high-rises. People are very concerned, so will the Minister explain what systematic action is being taken to prevent other fires? What will he do to ensure that we strengthen the regulators’ powers to address residents’ concerns when they raise the alarm?
Alok Sharma
I talked about the expert advisory panel, which will consider many such matters. As the Prime Minister said at last week’s PMQs, we need to look “much more widely” at what has happened
“under different Governments and under different councils”.—[Official Report, 28 June 2017; Vol. 626, c. 587.]
We will ensure that we get to the bottom of that. It is vital that people feel safe, and that is what we are going to ensure.