Recommendations from a report on a tower block fire in 2009 have not been properly reviewed by the government, a parliamentary secretary says.
Ronnie King, honorary secretary of the All-Party Fire Safety and Rescue Group, has told LBC that there are around 4,000 tower blocks that do not have fire sprinklers fitted into them.
He said after the fire in Lakanal House in Camberwell, London, in which six people died, there was a "recommendation, which was down to each local council and landlords to determine the appropriateness" of the lack of fire sprinklers in some blocks.
"Our group recommended that due to the speed that the fire spread in Lakanal House, that building regulations should be reviewed. It's nearly 11 years since it has been reviewed.
"Sucessive ministers since 2013 have said they are still looking at it."