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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish a review of fire-safety requirements of domestic and non-domestic properties and their interaction with the (a) Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 and (b) Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

The Government has now published the Draft Building Safety Bill – the next step in making the most significant change to building legislation in nearly 40 years. In addition to this, the Government?has?introduced?the Fire Safety Bill which?will clarify?that the Fire Safety Order applies to external walls and individual flat entrance?doors?in all multi-occupied residential buildings. Alongside the Building Safety Bill, the Home Office has launched a public consultation on the FSO which it will publish in due course. In July 2019, the Government announced that it will be developing a new approach to the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations to address the different sources and chemical risks posed by fire to upholstered furniture and furnishings in domestic properties.