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High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

Question for Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UIN 114959, tabled on 12 November 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made regarding the potential liability of developers that have sold flats in high-rise private residential buildings that do not meet fire safety standards.

Answered on

19 November 2020

Matters of liability are specific to individual buildings, and the Department is not in a position to make individual assessments of the facts and circumstances surrounding each individual building.