Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2017 to Question 4446, on what date work began on simplifying the fire safety guidance relating to Building Regulations Approved Document B.
In 2012, prior to the recommendations made by the Coroner into the Lakanal House fire, research was undertaken into fire safety issues as a first step to simplifying Approved Document B. This was followed by a study of users views of Approved Document B, commissioned in Summer 2015, as well as work to prepare a version of the document in a new, more user friendly style.