Recommendations made by a coroner after a fatal tower block fire in 2009 were not considered “particularly important for public safety”, a former senior civil servant has told the Grenfell inquiry.

Melanie Dawes, who was permanent secretary of the then Department for Communities and Local Government, from 2015 until 2020, explained officials thought the coroner’s recommendations after the Lakanal House fire were “not particularly well-written” and were “probably a little bit dismissive of them”.

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