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21 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
In October, Scottish Tories did not vote on extending free school meals because it was English legislation.

But they made an exception last month to help the govt vote down an amendment to protect English leaseholders from paying cladding costs: insidehousing.co.uk/news/campaigne…
English Votes for English laws rule has been suspended for pandemic. But Scottish Conservatives said they would respect it anyway after being criticised for not voting for free school meals in October
But in March all six Scottish Conservatives including leader Douglas Ross helped vote down an amendment to the Fire Safety Bill which had sought to protect leaseholders from paying for cladding remediation. This legislation only applies to England. Here's their explanation:
Cladding campaigners are now calling on the SNP (who previously abstained) to vote when the bill returns: which would suddenly transform it into a knife edge vote which the government could lose.

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21 Apr
Lunchtime update from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:

- Eddie Daffarn witness statement describes "heartbreak" at loss of Grenfell Tower community and feels he was "stigmatised as a trouble maker" by TMO in build up to fire
Ed Daffarn is of course well known for his efforts to raise fire safety issues and complain about the refurbishment before the fire and his campaigning since. He's submitted a lengthy witness statement which you can read here: assets.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/IWS00002109_Ph…
Several issues covered this morn, some highlights only in this thread. Started with discussions around the various resident groups in the estate: an Estate Management Board, the Lancaster West Residents Association and specific groups for the tower.
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20 Apr
Lunchtime update from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:

- Residents describe how vital self-closing devices were removed from flat doors by KCTMO staff
- Disabled woman forced to 'bump' her way down stairs to escape fire after no escape plan made
This morning we've heard from two residents: Betty Kasote and Youseff Khalloud, as well as hearing some statements read in.

First, Ms Kasote - a nurse who had lived on the 7th floor of the tower since 1996. Her witness statement is here: assets.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/IWS00001775_Ph…
For the resident witnesses so far, the oral evidence appears to be about picking up specific thematic things and clarifying issues in the witness statement. Makes these documents a bit more important for following the narrative than was the case for the corporates.
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19 Apr
Update from this morning at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:

- Former resident Lee Chapman describes efforts to complain about gas pipe installation in tower's communal staircase
So this morning we've heard from the first resident witness from this part of the inquiry, Lee Chapman - former secretary of the Grenfell Tower Leaseholders Association. He lived on the 22nd floor with his partner Naomi Li.
Primarily, his evidence focused on GTLA's complaints about work from 2016 onwards to install new gas pipes through the tower's staircase. This work was carried out by the National Grid and was separate to the refurbishment of the tower by Rydon et al
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17 Mar
I see the government was back in the House of Lords today claiming to be implementing the Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendations in full. Something which remains... not true
1. Manual fire alarms

The inquiry said all high rise buildings should be "equipped with facilities for use by the fire and rescue services enabling them to send an evacuation signal to the whole or a selected part of the building by means of sounders or similar devices"
That is quite conclusively not something the government is signed up to. Leaked minutes I've seen show an industry response group warning the government this recommendation is a case of “cost against benefit (it’s not cheap)”.
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15 Mar
Lunchtime update from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:

BBA published 'materially wrong' certificate for cladding later used on Grenfell after Arconic 'stonewalled' their request for up to date information for 16 months
Background: In 2007, the British Board of Agrement published a certificate which confirmed th cladding panels later used on Grenfell "may be regarded" as Class 0 - the standard in English regs at the time for high rises. You can read more about that here: insidehousing.co.uk/news/grenfell-…
This morning we've been hearing from Valentina Amoroso from the BBA, who reviewed the certificate in 2014/15.

This review was originally due to be done by January 2014 and the BBA began seeking the info necessary in October 2013:
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10 Mar
Report from today at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:

Senior manager at Arconic wrote an internal document in in 2007 pondering what its responsibility would be if a fire involving its product killed “60 or 70” people in a high rise

insidehousing.co.uk/news/grenfell-…
On this specific document, the marketing manager at Arconic (which later sold the cladding used on Grenfell Tower) went to Norway in 2007 for an industry get-together hosted by a Norwegian products distributor
While there, attendees were invited to give presentations and a consultant from OTEFAL (a German metatls company) did a seminar on the dangers of using ACM as compared to solid aluminium.
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