The author of the government’s review of fire safety regulations says the industry should not expect the government to rethink its combustibles ban until it has shown that it has reformed working practices in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

Dame Judith Hackitt, who has also just been chosen to lead the board creating a new building safety regulator, made the comments despite just delivering a speech in which she said prescriptive building regulations simply encouraged an unthinking box-ticking mentality to fire safety.