Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the Grenfell Tower fire on the adequacy of the provisions on residential buildings in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005; and if he will make a statement.

Dame Judith Hackitt’s report on Building Regulations and Fire Safety calls for major reform of the regulatory system and for culture change across the construction industry and fire safety sector.

The government agreed with the broad principles of the report and committed to bring forward legislation. The Home Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are working with partners to consider the detail of Dame Judith’s recommendations and the government will make a statement on implementation of the reforms later in the autumn.