News and communications

A government review has been published today which will help to bolster the resilience of the 999-call handling system following a technical fault in June 2023.

• Updated: 21 March 2024

Letters of thanks from Home Secretary James Cleverly to all police, fire and rescue service workers.

• Updated: 24 December 2023

• Thank you to police forces: letter from the Home Secretary, 23 December 2023

  Dear Police Forces, As Home Secretary, I am lucky enough to see first-hand…

• Thank you to fire and rescue services: letter from the Home Secretary, 23 December 2023

  Dear Fire and Rescue Services, It was an honour to be appointed as Home…

Lee Freeman and Michelle Skeer take up dual roles as His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales and Inspector of Fire and Rescue in England.

• Updated: 27 April 2023

Fire and rescue authorities will be able to carry out stringent new record checks, helping fire and rescue services protect the public and their staff.

• Updated: 25 April 2023

Commencement regulations for new fire safety legal provisions within section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 have been laid in Parliament.

• Updated: 30 March 2023

More leaseholders in high-rise homes will be spared unfair bills for building safety as £4.5 billion Building Safety Fund opens for new applications.

• Updated: 28 July 2022

Many leaseholders will for the first time be legally protected from unfair bills to make their homes safe as measures in the Building Safety Act 2022 come into force.

• Updated: 28 June 2022

New improvements to fire safety guidance form part of a wider update to tighten building regulations and provide clearer fire safety rules for the design or construction of residential developments.

• Updated: 1 June 2022

Robust reforms to fire safety introduced to strengthen fire and rescue services, putting the majority of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendations into law.

• Updated: 18 May 2022

The government has revealed a wide-ranging agreement that will see industry contribute £5 billion to address the building safety scandal.

• Updated: 13 April 2022

Letter from the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove to the Construction Products Association.

• Updated: 13 April 2022

Letter setting out the agreed principles between each participant developer and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

• Updated: 13 April 2022

Letter from Michael Gove to the Home Builders Federation on proposals to pay for building safety.

• Updated: 7 March 2022

Tough new measures that will force industry to pay to remove cladding and protect leaseholders from exorbitant costs have been unveiled by Secretary of State for Levelling Up Michael Gove.

• Updated: 14 February 2022

A letter from DLUHC to developers on Heads of Terms for a memorandum of understanding.

• Updated: 3 February 2022

Leaseholders will be further protected from rip off, misused fire safety measures thanks to new government funding to remove so-called Waking Watch patrols.

• Updated: 27 January 2022

Letter from the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove to the Construction Products Association seeking remediation contributions.

• Updated: 23 January 2022

Under the Leaseholder and Resident Service, those living in tower blocks will have access to updates on the status of their building’s application to the government’s Building Safety Fund.

• Updated: 20 January 2022

The government has reset its approach to building safety with a bold new plan to protect leaseholders and make wealthy developers and companies pay to fix the cladding crisis.

• Updated: 10 January 2022

Letters regarding the ministerial direction to fund fire alarms in all buildings with a waking watch.

• Updated: 10 January 2022