Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Engagement with residents etc Section 92: Requests for further information Background
The purpose of this section is to ensure that residents and owners of residential units in a higher-risk building can request additional information on building safety beyond the information they receive automatically. This is intended to allow residents and owners to access this information without making the initial provision of information overly burdensome on Accountable Persons.
	In addition to recommending that residents should automatically receive key building safety information (see section 89), the Independent Review also recommended that further and more detailed information about the safety of their building should be made available to any resident on request. The further building safety information that may be requested by residents of higher-risk buildings under this section will be set out in regulations and is currently envisaged to include the following:
Fire risk assessments for the higher-risk building;
Outcomes of Building Safety inspection checks for the higher-risk building;
The detail as to how any details as to how building safety assets in the higher-risk building are managed;
The detail of any details of preventive measures in place for the higher-risk building to prevent fire spread and/ or other building safety risks from occurring;
Information on the maintenance of fire safety systems within the higher-risk building;
The fire strategy for the higher-risk building;
Any recent structural assessments for the higher-risk building; and
Planned and historical changes to the higher-risk building which are relevant to building safety.
	This section also provides that the Secretary of State may make regulations setting out the circumstances when an Accountable Person is exempt from the requirement to make some or all of this information or documentation available. The purpose of this section is to ensure that providing of this information does not create new safety, security or privacy risks. The exemptions are anticipated to include information related to:
the security of the building and/or the residents of that building. For example, technical and operational information about the lifts in a building. That information could be misused by someone who wanted to cause damage to the building and/or harm to residents;
the security of other buildings in the vicinity. For example, information about the technical system that controls sprinklers in a building. Disabling the sprinkler system could have a negative impact on surrounding buildings because of the risk of fire spread.
	Any disclosure made under this section will also have to comply with relevant data protection legislation.