Grenfell inquiry: Fire safety guidance should ‘perhaps’ have been updated sooner

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A coroner’s warning to update fire safety guidance five years before the Grenfell tragedy should “perhaps” have been acted upon sooner, a Government official has said.

Bob Ledsome, who works for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), has said officials aimed to update the guidance by 2017 and conceded that it could have been done “more quickly”.