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Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report

Sarah Gibson Excerpts
Wednesday 4th September 2024

(2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Keir Starmer Portrait The Prime Minister
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Many premises are being monitored. That needs to continue. We need to bear down on all the relevant authorities to ensure they are safe and give leaseholders the support they need.

Sarah Gibson Portrait Sarah Gibson (Chippenham) (LD)
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Will the Prime Minister help to ensure this type of disaster will not happen again by looking carefully at building control inspection? Since deregulation, such inspection is often not carried out in person but through phone calls and photographs. Poor inspection of works across the UK building industry means other such disasters will happen again and again, unless we look carefully at how our building control inspection works.

Keir Starmer Portrait The Prime Minister
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I agree with that. The way building control inspections were carried out in this case makes for a shocking read in the report. It is particularly grave, but not the only example of such building control inspection. We will look at that as we respond to the report.