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By Tom Lowe2022-03-22T10:51:00
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Senior civil servant responsible for building fire safety says 2001 tests “just got missed”
A series of dramatic failed fire tests on ACM cladding before the Grenfell tower fire had “just got forgotten”, a senior civil servant has told the inquiry into the disaster.
Brian Martin said the government-commissioned fire tests, carried out 16 years before the West London blaze, “just got missed”.
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