Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what specific steps his Department took as a result of the inquest into the Lakanal House fire.

The Department considered and has acted on the recommendations of the Coroner's report into the Lakanal House fire in 2009. A note setting out the action the Government took in response to the recommendations has been placed in the Library of the House in September 2017 in response to Question UIN HL1281 answered on 19 September by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Since the publication of this letter we have published a clarified version of Approved Document B available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-approved-document-b . In December 2018, we have started a wide ranging technical review of the guidance in which we have identified means of escape in blocks of flat as a key research topic.