Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendations: progress update - March 2026

Background

On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, London which led to the deaths of 72 people and the loss of homes for a community.

The phase 2 report set out the responsibilities and failures of the main parties, including the UK Government, the local authority, the managers of the building, the architect, contractors, manufacturers, certification and test bodies and London Fire Brigade.

Recognising the scale, seriousness and impact of the Grenfell fire and the importance of learning the lessons arising from the tragedy, the Scottish Government response accepted all the recommendations, as far as they applied in Scotland.

The response set out how each recommendation falling within devolved competence would be addressed with work to be progressed under the direction of the Ministerial Working Group on Building and Fire Safety.

To support this objective, a separate Ministerial Working Group was created specifically on Grenfell to examine the report and ensure that the Scottish Government took all appropriate action to address the report’s findings and recommendations.

The Ministerial Working Group on Grenfell considered the recommendations and split them into the following themes:

• Regulation and systems (recommendations 1, 2, 20-23)
• Government and restructuring (recommendations 3, 4)
• Building Standards, fire tests and product certification (recommendations 5-14, 40)
• Design competence (recommendations 15-19)
• Fire safety and Firefighting (recommendations 26, 29-39, 41, 57, 58)
• Resilience and local authorities (recommendations 42-56)
• Assorted recommendations (recommendations 24, 25, 27, 28)

Two separate ‘issues’ were also addressed as part of the response.