As the Secretary of State has said, it is now six years since the Grenfell fire, but new data gathered by Inside Housing shows that only a fraction of high-rise social housing blocks—fewer than one in five—have been retrofitted with sprinklers or fire alarms. A lack of funding is a key reason for that, so can the Government really claim that they are doing everything possible to prevent another Grenfell when people are still living in high rises without those protections?
Building Safety and Social Housing
Proceeding contribution from
Richard Burgon
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 6 July 2023.
It occurred during Debate on Building Safety and Social Housing.
About this proceeding contribution
Reference
735 c974 Session
2022-23Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamberSubjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2024-08-01 12:02:53 +0100
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-07-06/23070635000023
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-07-06/23070635000023
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-07-06/23070635000023