The Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025

Provision of information to local fire and rescue authority

10.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the responsible person in relation to a specified residential building must provide the local fire and rescue authority with the following information relating to each relevant resident of that building—

(a) the resident’s flat number;

(b) the resident’s floor number;

(c) basic information regarding the degree of assistance that the resident may require to evacuate the building;

(d) whether the resident has an emergency evacuation statement.

(2) The responsible person must not provide the information in paragraph (1) to the local fire and rescue authority unless the relevant resident has given explicit consent to the provision of that information.

(3) The responsible person must provide the information in paragraph (1) to the local fire and rescue authority by whichever of the following means the local fire and rescue authority chooses—

(a) electronic means;

(b) placing a hard copy in a secure information box.

(4) Where the local fire and rescue authority chooses the option set out in paragraph (3)(b), if a secure information box is not already installed(1)—

(a) the responsible person must install and maintain a secure information box in or on the building, and

(b) the requirements in regulation 4(3) to (5) of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 apply in relation to that box.

(1)

See regulation 4 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 for the requirement to install and maintain a secure information box in relation to a high-rise residential building (as defined in regulation 2 of those Regulations). See also Approved Document B, paragraphs 15.18 to 15.21 for the recommendation in relation to buildings over 11 metres.