Bangladeshi-origin Labour Party MP Tulip Rizwana Siddiq has called upon the British government to allocate more money for Camden to ensure fire safety to the residential buildings.
Tulip, the niece of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, made the call while speaking in a debate on the Grenfell Tower Fire Inquiry in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
The MP for Hampstead and Kilburn informed that the local council was spending its own money to ensure safety in tower blocks such as the Chalcots estate, which two weeks ago was evacuated at the behest of fire safety officers.
Chalcots residents have been allowed to return their homes in phases this week on the advice of the fire brigade. All the residents are expected to be back in their homes by the end of the month.
Tulip argued that the government should allocate more money for the councils like Camden.
This file photo shows flames and smoke coming from a 27-storey block of flats after a fire broke out on June 14, 2017
AFPAlok Sharma, minister of state for the department for communities and local government, said no more allocation would be given to ensure fire safety.
“So far 120 families have been given 5,000 pounds each. A total of 4 million pounds have been allocated so far for the fire victims,” he added.
A deadly overnight fire raced through a 24-story apartment tower in London on June 14 claimed the lives of at least 80 people.
Five members of a Bangladeshi family were killed in the fire.
This story was first published on Bangla Tribune.