Brandon Lewis was the Tory Housing Minister
in the Conservative/LibDem Coalition. In 2014 as Housing Minister, he declined
to require developers to install sprinklers. Instead he told Parliament:
“We believe that it is the
responsibility of the fire industry, rather than the Government, to market fire
sprinkler systems effectively and to encourage their wider installation. … The
cost of fitting a fire sprinkler system may affect house building -- something
we want to encourage -- so we must wait to see what impact that regulation
has.”
Well Mr Lewis, how does 58 lives
sound, for openers? How do several hundred lives sound? Will that be impact
enough?
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