00:00potential offences include corporate manslaughter gross negligence manslaughter health and safety offences fraud and fraud related offences and misconduct in
00:11public office
00:11the blaze in june of twenty seventeen in north kensington claimed the lives of seventy-two people and was found
00:19by a public inquiry to have been avoidable
00:22the crown prosecution service has said charging decisions will be made before the 10th anniversary of the disaster which falls
00:31on the 14th of june next year
00:33housing secretary angela rayner confirmed her department had been notified in 2023 that it was under investigation
00:42and said a file relating to the ministry of housing communities and local government has now been referred to the
00:49cps
00:50in relation to a potential breach of the health and safety work act 1974
00:55she said the grenfell tower inquiry had exposed profound failures in the building safety system
01:02adding that she recognized confidence will only be rebuilt through sustained action and visible change
01:09investigators have looked at the role of more than 15 000 people and 700 organizations
01:15as part of the inquiry and have submitted twelve thousand six hundred pages of evidence to the cps a total
01:24of fourteen thousand seven hundred statements have been taken and more than twenty seven thousand exhibits
