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Businesses that contributed – or may have contributed – to the inferno that claimed 72 lives at Grenfell Tower in 2017 are still winning work contracts from local and national government.
This is despite serious questions over their suitability – and due to conditions that mean it is simply easier for decision-makers to give contracts to those who (most probably) do not deserve them.
Here’s The Guardian: “Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have called on the government to stop companies implicated in the disaster from receiving public contracts, after it was revealed several were still in receipt of multimillion-pound deals.
“New analysis found at least 87 contracts across the public sector in the government’s own database involve companies criticised in the phase 2 report into the Grenfell fire, published in September 2024, though some contracts may have since expired.
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“Seventy-two people died and more than 70 were injured as a result of the blaze which broke out in the west London tower block on 14 June 2017. It was the UK ‘s worst residential fire since the Blitz in the second world war.
“At the time of the report, Keir Starmer said he would debar the companies involved from any public contracts. However, the government later reversed plans for blanket exclusion, citing advice from the Crown Prosecution Service that action could prejudice criminal investigations.
“The Procurement Act 2023 gives local authorities, NHS bodies and other public organisations the power to exclude suppliers for poor past performance, including breaches of health and safety, labour or environmental law, or professional misconduct.”
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Why are firms that contributed to the Grenfell Tower inferno still getting public contracts?
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Businesses that contributed – or may have contributed – to the inferno that claimed 72 lives at Grenfell Tower in 2017 are still winning work contracts from local and national government.
This is despite serious questions over their suitability – and due to conditions that mean it is simply easier for decision-makers to give contracts to those who (most probably) do not deserve them.
Here’s The Guardian: “Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have called on the government to stop companies implicated in the disaster from receiving public contracts, after it was revealed several were still in receipt of multimillion-pound deals.
“New analysis found at least 87 contracts across the public sector in the government’s own database involve companies criticised in the phase 2 report into the Grenfell fire, published in September 2024, though some contracts may have since expired.
“Seventy-two people died and more than 70 were injured as a result of the blaze which broke out in the west London tower block on 14 June 2017. It was the UK ‘s worst residential fire since the Blitz in the second world war.
“At the time of the report, Keir Starmer said he would debar the companies involved from any public contracts. However, the government later reversed plans for blanket exclusion, citing advice from the Crown Prosecution Service that action could prejudice criminal investigations.
“The Procurement Act 2023 gives local authorities, NHS bodies and other public organisations the power to exclude suppliers for poor past performance, including breaches of health and safety, labour or environmental law, or professional misconduct.”
Here’s what’s really going on – as it seems to This Writer…
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