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  • The Inquiry published its final report on 4 September 2024. The Government will carefully consider its recommendations, to ensure that such a tragedy can never occur again.

  • This consultation seeks your views on HMICFRS's proposed fire and rescue services inspection programme and framework for 2025–27.

  • A consultation on implementing minimum service levels for fire and rescue services during periods of strike action.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • We are seeking views on proposals to introduce system-wide reform that will strengthen fire and rescue services in England.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Consultation on proposed changes to the Firefighters' Pension Scheme (England) Order 2006.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • We are consulting on Public Service Pensions: Firefighters’ Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2023, to enact the second phase of the remedy in the McCloud/Sargeant cases.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Information about the commencement of the Fire Safety Act and how it affects Responsible Persons and others.

  • Provides details of our proposed inspections of fire and rescue services for 2023/25. It concerns the third full cycle of inspection of all the fire and rescue services in England.

  • This document provides details of HMICFRS’s inspection programme and framework for fire and rescue services, commencing January 2023.

  • We are seeking views on new proposals to implement the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • We are seeking views on new proposals to support the fire safety of residents who would need support to evacuate in an emergency situation.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • The Home Office is undertaking a consultation on Public Service Pensions: Firefighters’ Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2022, to enact the first phase of the remedy in the McCloud / Sargeant cases.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • We are seeking views on how to assess and prioritise fire safety risks and how to better understand the complexity of building risk to ensure that an appropriate level of safety is achieved in existing buildings.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Consultation proposal on options to reduce the trigger height for sprinkler provision in new high-rise blocks of flats in England, alongside other fire safety measures.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • This call for evidence seeks views and evidence on the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 for England in workplaces and the parts used in common in multi-occupied residential buildings.

    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • We are seeking views on the proposal to vary the combination schemes of combined fire and rescue authorities to implement the ‘representation model’ of the Policing and Crime Act 2017.

    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • A summary of the announcements by the Building Safety Programme on 2 April 2020.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • ​A report by an MHCLG expert group on how to re-structure current guidance which supports building regulations when it is reviewed, as recommended by Dame Judith Hackitt in her independent review.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • This document sets out the government’s response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s Phase 1 report, which was published on 30 October 2019.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Provides details of our proposed inspections of fire and rescue services for 2020/21. It concerns the second full cycle of inspection of all the fire and rescue services in England.