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The government has been \u201cfar too slow\u201d in reforming the building and fire safety regime and is still not doing enough, according to a report published today (18 July)<\/h2>\n

In the two years since<\/a> the Grenfell Tower fire, the government is still not doing enough to remove dangerous cladding from existing buildings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has called on the government to recognise the need for urgency.<\/p>\n

The report warns that the \u00a3200m that Government has set aside for the remediation of private sector residential buildings with ACM cladding<\/a> will not be sufficient. The government has also failed to provide funding for other forms of potentially dangerous cladding materials currently found on hundreds more existing residential and high-risk buildings.<\/p>\n

The committee warns a delay is no longer an option and the government must fulfil its moral duty to ensure buildings are safe by setting out a firm timescale for removal.<\/p>\n

Greater urgency is also needed to establish an effective regulatory system that ensures building safety in the long-term. The committee says it is frustrated that, over a year since the publication of the final report of the Independent Review of Building Regulations<\/a> and Fire Safety, the government has only recently started consulting on its proposals for the new regulatory regime.<\/p>\n

The committee was also concerned to hear from survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire that, for many, the quality of their new permanent housing was very poor and that they had not received the health screening services they were told they would get.<\/p>\n

Chair of the committee<\/a>, Clive Betts MP said: \u201cWe are two years on from the Grenfell Tower disaster and the government is far behind where it should be in every aspect of its response.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurther delay is simply not acceptable. The government cannot morally justify funding the replacement of one form of dangerous cladding, but not others. It should immediately extend its fund to cover the removal and replacement of any form of combustible cladding \u2013 as defined by the Government\u2019s combustible cladding ban \u2013 from any high-rise or high-risk building.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch more progress should also have been made on developing a comprehensive building and fire safety framework. This is simply not good enough. It has been over two years since the fire at Grenfell Tower, and more than a year since the publication of the Final Report of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, and yet the government has only just published a consultation into its proposals for reform of the building safety regulatory system. The government must pick up the pace of reform, before it is too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would like to pay tribute to the victims and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire, and thank them for giving evidence to our inquiry. We have a duty to learn the lessons of the failures that had such a devastating impact on so many lives. As of yet, the government has failed to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

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