[3] She then joined Harcros Chemicals for six years as operational director of the pigments business before moving up to being the group risk manager for the parent H&C.

Interim mitigation and remediation measures have been put in place where necessary for existing high-rise residential buildings to assure residents of their safety regarding fire risk.

It is essential that this industry now works to implement a truly robust and assured approach to building the increasingly complex structures in which people live.

[12] Hackitt was criticised for having admitted that she was "not an expert" on the Grenfell tragedy and had "not looked at the details" of the fire when undertaking her post-Grenfell review of building safety regulations, an omission that Labour MP David Lammy claimed was an “insult” to victims of the blaze and that put questions marks around whether her work in this area was even credible.

Due to the political fallout from Hackitt's failure to urge a ban on all combustibles on multi-occupancy buildings, government was forced to announce a consultation on the same day of the publication of her final report.

[15][16] This consultation did, ultimately, yield a change of policy and lead to a ban that had been called for by campaigners and fire and building safety experts, but which had not originally been endorsed by Hackitt.