Given this, the government’s apology for not correctly overseeing council building inspectors felt a tad restricted. An apology for abdication of duty over four decades – on behalf of not simply the current authorities however the institution of the British state – can be more becoming. A 1999 hearth in Garnock Court in Irvine, Ayrshire, additionally showed the danger of plastic panels. A select committee advice to drop an insufficient hearth standard was ignored. Perhaps driving the failure to act was the estimated value of removing harmful cladding of £500m; right now it’s closer to £15bn.