The Department for Housing was “unequipped” to deal with a 2014 warning that “combustible” insulation was being used in buildings over 18 metres high, a former Government official has told the Grenfell Inquiry.
Richard Harral was head of technical policy at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) from 2014 until October 2017, where he was in charge of ensuring “suitable procedures were followed to develop and implement building regulation policy”.
