Government response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee report 'Building regulations and fire safety: consultation response and connected issues'

Command Paper CP 184

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2019
Government response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee report 'Building regulations and fire safety: consultation response and connected issues' Download document

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Current

Supplement

Core Supplement

Series

Command Paper

Abstract

Provides Government responses to the recommendations and updates on progress of reforms to the building regulations and for remediating buildings with dangerous cladding. Covers: support for the Grenfell community; identification and remediation of risk in existing buildings; and fixing the system. The responses cover: pace of change; ban on combustible cladding and insulation; remediation deadline; funding; testing results; and support for survivors.

History

Issued: October 2019. CP 184. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government of Her Majesty. Read with: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee HC 2546 Building regulations and fire safety: consultation response and connected issues (HC 2546 of session 2017-19). Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report (HOC, 2019).

ISBN

9781528616430

Subjects

  • Fire
  • Legal issues and management
  • Health and safety
  • Building control
  • Building control, England
  • Special subject areas

Publisher History

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.

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