Flats: Fire Prevention

(asked on 15th January 2020) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2020 to Question 1749, on Flats: Fire Prevention, what information his Department holds on the (a) number and (b) proportion of privately owned apartment blocks where remedial fire safety works other than the remediation of aluminium composite material cladding are being undertaken as a result of safety checks following the Grenfell Tower fire.


Answered by
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 20th January 2020

The Department does not hold this data. Building safety is the responsibility of the building owner, and they must remedy any safety risks uncovered.

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