Written questions

Social Rented Housing: Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans

Commons · Question 81039 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 24 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Coleman

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that all disabled people in social housing have personal emergency evacuation plans.

Answer

Answered by Samantha Dixon, 24 Oct 2025

We are committed to improving systems that enable fire safety and evacuation of disabled and vulnerable residents in all high-rise and higher-risk residential buildings. On 4 July, the government laid The Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (Englan...