High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

(asked on 23rd January 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding his Department is providing for essential fire safety work in tower blocks identified as unsafe due to flammable cladding.


Answered by
Dominic Raab Portrait
Dominic Raab
This question was answered on 30th January 2018

Local authorities are responsible for funding the costs of fire safety work in their own buildings. However, the Government will consider financial flexibilities to enable local authorities to undertake essential fire safety work to make buildings safe. If a local authority building owner considers a building to be unsafe, they will need to determine what measures are essential to make a building safe. This will need to be done as part of a whole fire safety strategy for each individual building, taking into account expert advice, any directions or advice from the local fire and rescue service and fire safety measures present.

Councils should contact my department if they have concerns about funding firesafety works in their buildings.

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