GRENFELL survivors warned ministers have “no excuse of inaction” after it emerged several companies implicated in the disaster still receive public contracts worth millions of pounds.

Analysis by Kensington Labour MP Joe Powell found at least 87 contracts across the public sector in the government’s own database involve companies criticised in the phase 2 report into the Grenfell fire, though some may have since expired.

Survivors’ group Grenfell United said that it would be a deep injustice to see some of the companies censured in the September 2024 report still receive public funds. 

“While the criminal investigation limits formal sanctions, nothing stops the government taking a clear moral stance,” the group said in a statement.

“The Procurement Act already allows authorities to consider integrity and risk, so there is no excuse for inaction.”

Seventy-two people died and more than 70 were injured by a blaze that broke out in the west London tower block in June 2017. 

Cllr Emma Dent Coad, who was the local MP at the time of the fire, said it is “indefensible” that “the perpetrators of the social murder of 72 of our friends and neighbours continue to make their fortunes.

“They are a danger to us all. Take them off the streets. Put them on remand.”

A government spokesperson said: “While the wider public sector is responsible for its own procurement decisions, the government wrote to all organisations named in Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s report and launched investigations into seven.

“These have been paused to avoid any unintentional prejudice to criminal proceedings — but this does not prevent us from restarting them, or launching new investigations where appropriate in the future.”