{"value":{"id":1330377,"memberId":4495,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Minister of State for Crime and Policing","uin":"HCWS73","dateMade":"2021-06-08T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","title":"Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans in High-rise Residential Buildings Consultation","text":"<p>My Noble Friend the Minister of State, Home Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Lord Greenhalgh) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:</p><p>Today, the Government publishes a new consultation on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans in High-rise Residential Buildings which will be open from 8 June to 19 July 2021.</p><p>This new consultation contains proposals to implement the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 Report recommendations on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans in high-rise residential buildings. These recommendations require a change in law to place new requirements on owners or managers of multi-occupied high-rise residential buildings.</p><p>This consultation supports delivery of two of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations and is part of the government’s package of reforms to improve building and fire safety in all regulated premises where people live, stay or work.</p><p>We are consulting on the following proposals:</p><ul><li><strong>Proposal 1: </strong>We propose to require the Responsible Person to prepare a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan for every resident who self-identifies to them as unable to self-evacuate (subject to the resident’s voluntary self-identification) and to do so in consultation with them.</li><li><strong>Proposal 2: </strong>We propose to provide a template to assist the Responsible Person and the residents in completing the plan, and to support consistency at a national level.</li><li><strong>Proposal 3: </strong>We propose to require the Responsible Person to complete and keep up to date information about residents in their building who would have difficulty self-evacuating in the event of a fire (and who have voluntarily self-identified as such), and to place it in an information box on the premises to assist effective evacuation during a rescue by the fire service.</li><li><strong>Proposal 4: </strong>We propose, in order to assist the Responsible Person and support consistency at a national level, to provide a template, most likely in a one-page format, to capture the key information to be provided in the information box.</li></ul><p>Further details can be found in the consultation and its supportive documents available at: <a href=\"https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fconsultations%2Fpersonal-emergency-evacuation-plans&data=04%7C01%7CBilly.English%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C73009d489bb64256106108d927341bdf%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637583927014049696%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=MkcfhfB4wXPGDte%2B6ZKwtWDGEQkZfDyJ8P67eXNvGGk%3D&reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/personal-emergency-evacuation-plans</a>. A copy of the consultation will also be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":4,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":1330386,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2021-06-08T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1330377","method":"GET"}]}