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Progress report September 2026: summary update

Published 10 September 2026

Overview

Last updated: 10 September 2026

Theme	Number of recommendations	In progress	Complete
The construction industry	28	19	9
Fire and rescue services	13	4	9
Response and recovery	14	7	7
Vulnerable people and Phase 1 recommendations	6	1	5
Total	61	31	30

Introduction

This is the government’s sixth progress update on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 recommendations.

​Since the last progress report in May 2026, we have completed a further 9 recommendations.

We remain committed to acting on all 58 Phase 2 recommendations and the 3 remaining Phase 1 recommendations, and to addressing the findings of the Inquiry.

Timeline for delivery 

We continue to expect that all recommendations will be implemented by the end of 2029. This is because some actions require new legislation to be introduced in Parliament. Delivery is ongoing across the remaining recommendations.

The implementation timeline has been updated to reflect our latest milestones and delivery plans.

Update on wider reform 

Remediation

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) monitors the remediation progress of residential buildings that are over 11 metres tall and have unsafe cladding. As of the end of July 2026, MHCLG was monitoring 4,697 of these buildings.

This is estimated to be between 64% to 81% of the residential buildings over 11 metres tall expected to be included in MHCLG’s remediation programmes.

Overall, remediation works have been started on 2,551 buildings (54% of monitored buildings). Of these, remediation works have been completed on 1,833 buildings (39% of monitored buildings).

This includes progress on:

• high rise buildings (over 18 metres tall)
• mid-rise buildings (between 11 and 18 metres tall)

Social housing reforms

We have concluded our review of the Right to Manage and are considering reforms to the Right to Manage framework in order to strengthen residents’ rights, improve accountability, and modernise the framework governing resident management of social housing. Areas for exploration include strong enforcement action in the event of serious mismanagement where residents’ safety is put at risk. We will continue to engage with residents, landlords and representative bodies and will provide further detail on reforms in due course. 

We are taking a number of other steps to support social housing providers to work with tenants to improve the quality of their housing services and engagement with tenants. The Social Housing Innovation Fund has issued £2 million in grant funding to 20 organisations to develop and test innovative approaches to resident engagement. We are continuing to monitor the effectiveness of the projects, and will share insights as best practice so successful models can be adopted more widely.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Baroness Taylor has hosted a roundtable with tenant, landlord and sector representatives to explore how tenants, social landlords and government can work together to tackle the stigma some residents face.

Tenant engagement is an important part of our work to make sure residents’ voices are heard as decisions are made on social housing policy. Some of the ways we are engaging with residents include:

• a social housing Resident Stakeholder Forum
• our Resident Panel

This quarter, the Resident Panel have taken part in discussions exploring ways to give residents more control of their housing services, landlords’ rights to access properties for safety checks, and service charges across all tenures. 

We have previously committed to extend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to Tenant Management Organisations (TMOs). This is intended to strengthen transparency and accountability by ensuring tenants of TMOs have the same statutory rights to access information about the management of their housing as other local authority tenants. We recently ran a targeted consultation on the proposals directly with TMOs, which closed on 8 May 2026. We will carefully review the consultation responses before setting out next steps.  

The government is committed to keeping the regulatory and redress system for the social housing sector under review and, as part of this commitment, has commissioned a 4-year evaluation of recent reforms designed to improve the quality of social homes and empower social tenants. The evaluation will draw on a broad range of departmental and sector data to analyse and report on the effectiveness of the reforms implemented by government and how impactful these have been for tenants.

Transparency and oversight

In line with the recommendations made by the Grenfell Tower and Infected Blood Inquiries and the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee, we agree that Parliament has an important role to play in the oversight of how government implements recommendations from inquiries.

The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) is currently considering how Parliament could undertake this function. The Committee has received written evidence from:

• Carl Macrae, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Psychology, University of Nottingham, and Charles Vincent, Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Safety, Imperial College London
• INQUEST
• UK government – Cabinet Office
• The Haemophilia Society
• Mr Keith Conradi, former Chief Inspector of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and Chief Investigator of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch
• Professor Andrew Williams, Professor of Law at University of Warwick and Head of the ‘Reimagining Public Inquiry’ project
• Hleb Buziuk, independent public policy and governance researcher
• Dr Emma Ireton, Associate Professor in Law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University

Additionally, it has heard oral evidence from:

• Sir Brian Langstaff, Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry, and Jenni Richards KC, Counsel to the Infected Blood Inquiry
• Lord Norton, Chair of the Statutory Inquiries Committee
• Professor Andrew Williams, Head of the ‘Reimagining Public Inquiry’ project
• Rosanna Ellul, Policy and Parliamentary Manager, INQUEST

PACAC’s inquiry is continuing and should conclude in early 2027.

Summary update on recommendations

This section gives a summary update of the work that has been done to deliver recommendations since the progress report in May 2026. It is grouped by the themes used by the Inquiry.

Find detailed updates on all recommendations:

• the construction industry
• fire and rescue services
• response and recovery
• vulnerable people and Phase 1 recommendations

The construction industry 

Single construction regulator

In January 2026, the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) was established as a new arm’s length body sponsored by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. In June 2026 we formally transferred staff to the new arm’s length body completing the full transition of the BSR out of the Health and Safety Executive. This is an important step towards implementing the Inquiry’s recommendation to reduce fragmentation across the construction sector with the formation of a Single Construction Regulator.

On 17 December 2025, we published the Single construction regulator prospectus: consultation document. The prospectus confirmed the government’s commitment to the Inquiry recommendation and set out our ambition to go beyond this as we deliver the single regulator. The prospectus consultation closed on 20 March 2026. We published the government response to the prospectus consultation on 9 July 2026.

Construction products reform    

The Construction Products Reform White Paper consultation closed in May, as well as the General Safety Requirement for Construction Products consultation to regulate products that are not currently covered by the current regime for construction products.

We are working to analyse consultation responses to inform and refine reform proposals including how government intends to progress work to address Inquiry recommendations 13, 14 and 24. We intend to publish the government responses to both consultations later this year, and to bring forward legislation when Parliamentary time allows.

Approved documents

The Building Safety Regulator’s consultation on changes to Approved Document B closed on 1 July 2026. More than 500 responses were received, more than double the number received to the consultation on second staircases. The Building Safety Regulator is now analysing the responses, which will inform recommendations for future changes to Approved Document B.

Separately, work continues on the Fundamental Review of Building Regulations guidance, which is considering how Approved Documents and other statutory guidance can be improved. 

Fire risk assessors    

We are progressing delivery of recommendation 26 of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry by developing proposals to introduce mandatory accreditation for fire risk assessors. Following the closure of the consultation in June 2026, we are analysing responses and undertaking policy development to inform future primary legislation subject to Parliamentary time, which will establish independently verified competence requirements and support a more consistent professional framework for the sector. A government response will be published during Q4 (October to December) setting out our approach and next steps.

Fire engineers

We have now established and begun working with the Fire Engineers Transitional Board, which will provide expert support and advice to MHCLG during the next phase of reform for the fire engineering profession.

In support of recommendation 16, £13 million funding is currently available to UK higher education institutions through an open competitive process, to increase capacity of fire engineering professionals. Award winners will be tasked to use the funds to increase higher education provision, provide studentships for masters places and boost research and academic capacity in fire engineering.

Fire and rescue services

College of Fire and Rescue   

We held a public consultation on the College of Fire and Rescue from 20 May to 15 July 2026, and engaged with a number of key stakeholders during the consultation period to discuss key points relating to the college’s aims, scope and design. We are now focusing on analysing the consultation responses, developing policy to be set out in the government’s formal response to the consultation, and planning for implementation of the college. 

National guidance, training and support

Since the last progress report, 5 further fire and rescue services recommendations have been completed. The London Fire Brigade revised Operational Learning process has been updated and independently peer reviewed. The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has published updated operational guidance and supporting training materials on the use of radio communications, decision-making and water supply systems, helping to ensure firefighters are better equipped to respond safely and effectively in complex incidents. We have also continued to support implementation across the sector through operational guidance workshops, with 48 workshops delivered over the last 18 months.

Response and recovery

The government has made good progress in delivery of recommendations related to response and recovery. Since the last progress report, the government has completed and fully discharged recommendations 42 and 44. Cabinet Office ministers have taken a decision on ways to strengthen intervention when a Category 1 responder is failing to respond appropriately, and we have also set out to local responders a programme to refresh resilience guidance.

To date, we have shared an updated National Resilience Standards draft for consultation, incorporated a new Human Aspects Standard and strengthened voluntary, community and faith sector partnership guidelines. In doing so, we have also leveraged the 2026 National Capabilities Assessment data to refine humanitarian considerations.

Additionally, the government has established 5 Chief Resilience Officer-led ‘Stronger LRF Trailblazer’ areas, successfully piloted a new co-designed national LRF peer review protocol billed for publication in Q3 (July to September) 2026 and initiated work to evaluate non-statutory measures and update protocols for government interventions. These achievements complement wider UK government resilience initiatives including the upcoming public communications campaign set for launch later this year to boost household and community preparedness, alongside the official Call for Views on the Civil Contingencies Act to gather evidence for its post-implementation review.