I went to Health and Safety training with a trade union about a year ago, and one official had an encyclopaedic knowledge of all the regulations - apparently in the H&S Act of 1974 the laws, codes of practice and guidance are under three separate categories (as in all Acts of Parliament) but the 'guidance' is not legally binding - all the construction interests involved over time have lobbied MPs to put the codes of practice requirements into the guidance section so that they are no longer legally binding. This is why setting up the official enquiry so the Fire Service are investigated a year before the MPs are in part two of the enquiry is a stich up and a smoke screen - it's the people who altered the law to make that cladding legal who are responsible, all any self-respecting journalist need do is go back through Hansard to find all those secondary legislation committees who changed the law, who arranged and populated these committees and who may have been lobbying them and you'll find the real culprits - that's the context, bit too big maybe, the fire service were poor, but the way it's being presented to the public is a smoke screen.

I would hope that as a result of this enquiry all the various safety regulations and checks are brought together in one place with a clear chain of command over responsibility.

I would also prefer the Fire Brigade to have responsibility for annual safety checks. Part of the issue here is that the response of the Fire brigade on the night was based on assumption about the adequacy of the fire systems in the block, assumptions that were flawed.

If the Fire Brigade has annual responsibility at the very least they can check their own report when responding to an incident.

In this case outsourcing has proved to be a disaster. The safety checks were outsourced and the council outsourced responsibility for property management in short everybody passes the buck.

One more point

Yes but don't forget the block underwent a 10m refurbishment, obviously that money was not spent wisely.

One more point

How is Ms Cotton still in her job? She said earlier today that it would be "very difficult to draw that conclusion" when asked if she agreed with the report saying that lives would have been saved had the building been evacuated earlier.

For goodness sake, electrical fires happen all the time and all over the place; even in posh houses.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

I doubt that 200 on sale fridges failed safety standards.
Maybe not as high a standard as they could be or as efficient but really!