The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is dealing with a total of more than 320,000 documents, it has revealed.
In an update ahead of the closing statements for Phase 2 of the Inquiry, the Inquiry says it disclosed 20,752 documents in Phase 1. It disclosed another 299,433 in Phase 2, making a total of 320,185.
The figures highlight the complexity of the Inquiry, which has been running for more than four years.
Hearings for the Inquiry ended in July this year, during which it heard 308 days of evidence across the two phases. The Inquiry began in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017, which killed 72 people.
The Inquiry is now in the process of digesting all the material it has heard. Closing statements will take place over four days from 7 November.
Inquiry chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick said in July that it had emerged during the course of the hearings that “many mistakes were made”. He added that organisations “failed in one way or another to meet the standards expected of them”. But he could not say when the Inquiry would produce its report, although it would do so “as quickly as possible”.
Meanwhile, the Inquiry has appointed Matt Lewsey as its new secretary. Lewsey is currently head of inquiries and reviews at the Cabinet Office where he established the UK Inquiry into Covid-19. He also served as secretary to the Hillsborough Independent Panel and secretary to the Daniel Morgan Inquiry.
