Grenfell Tower: Fires

(asked on 30th April 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason comprehensive checks to assess environmental and health risks in the area around Grenfell Tower were not announced before October 2018.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 7th May 2019

Independent air quality monitoring has been carried out around Grenfell Tower since June 2017, and has shown the risk to public health to be consistently low. Analysis of the long-term impact of the fire on public health was already ongoing and will continue by Public Health England, including consideration of a longer term environmental monitoring strategy. We recognise the community has concerns about the possibility of soil contamination following the Grenfell Tower fire, and therefore announced additional environmental checks to reassure the bereaved, survivors and wider community that any environmental risks to public health will be fully assessed and appropriate action taken.

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