Government official ‘parroted’ industry protests on accreditation scheme for fire risk assessors

摘要

A senior government official has admitted to “parrotting” claims made by businesses that the cost ofintroducing regulations for fire risk assessors would be too great.Louise Upton told the Grenfell Inquiry that she did “nothing” to scrutinise claims made by industrygroups that introducing an accreditation scheme for assessors would be “disadvantageous” and“unfair” for businesses.