Relevant Library publications

Leasehold high-rise flats: Who pays for fire safety work? (Research Briefing, June 2022)

The Cladding External Wall System (EWS) (Constituency Casework Article, May 2022)

Building Safety Bill: Lords amendments  (Research Briefing, April 2022)

Reducing fire risk in High Rise Social Housing (Debate Pack, September 2021)

Fire risk in flats and shared buildings (Debate Pack, January 2020)

Grenfell Tower Fire: Background (Research Briefing, January 2020)

House of Commons Committee Reports and Government responses

Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Building Safety: Remediation and Funding, Seventh Report of Session 2021–22, March 2022

Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Cladding Remediation— Follow-up, Seventh Report of Session 2019-21, April 2021

Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, Building safety: remediation and funding – government response to the Select Committee reports, May 2022

Public Accounts Committee, Progress in remediating dangerous cladding, Sixteenth Report of Session 2019-21, September 2020

Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Sixteenth report from Session 2019-21, November 2020

Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Cladding: progress of remediation, Second Report of Session 2019-21, June 2020

Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Government response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on Cladding: Progress of Remediation, September 2020

Additional Background Reports

UK Health Security Agency, Environmental monitoring following the Grenfell Tower fire, June 2022

National Audit Office, Investigation into remediating dangerous cladding on high-rise buildings, June 2020

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry, Phase 1 report, October 2019

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Fourth report from the Independent Grenfell Recovery Taskforce, July 2019

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Third report from the Independent Grenfell Recovery Taskforce, December 2018

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety: final report, May 2018

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Second report from the Independent Grenfell Recovery Taskforce, March 2018

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Initial report from the Independent Grenfell Recovery Taskforce, November 2017

Recent Press Material

The following is a selection of news and media articles relevant to this debate.

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Grenfell Tower legal costs on course to top £250m, The Guardian, 10 June 2022

The repercussions of the Grenfell Tower fire are far from over, The Economist [subscription required], 9 June 2022

Housing reforms promised days after Grenfell to finally be brought to Parliament, ITV News, 8 June 2022

Senior civil servant challenged over ‘situational awareness’ of Grenfell fire response, Inside Housing, 25 May 2022

Grenfell families ‘enraged’ by plan to keep ‘stay put’ policy,  The Guardian, 21 May 2022

‘Grenfell scanner’ that locates victims in burning buildings could save thousands of lives, The Telegraph [subscription required], 16 May 2022   

Residents displaced by Grenfell fire left sleeping rough after blaze, inquiry hears, Inside Housing, 4 May 2022

Grenfell Tower inquiry: Lord Pickles apologises for death toll error, BBC, 11 April 2022

The Times view on the Grenfell Tower fire’s legacy: Safety First, The Times [subscription required], 6 April 2022

Dr Bob Moore interview: ‘I thought Grenfell was my fault’, The Sunday Times [subscription required], 27 February 2022

Gove: government failed on post-Grenfell promise to listen to social housing tenants, Inside Housing, 23 February 2022

‘Another Grenfell is inevitable’: are London’s expensive new tower blocks safe?,  The Telegraph [subscription required], 18 February 2022 

Dozens of buildings still have Grenfell-style cladding, new figures show, The Independent, 20 January 2022

Five years after Grenfell, are all cladding victims now going to get help?, The Guardian, 9 January 2022

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