A NORTH Yorkshire MP has pushed the Prime Minister to offer incentives to get sprinklers installed in tower blocks.

Kevin Hollinrake, MP for Thirsk and Malton, was a member of the communities and local government select committee before the General Election, and has said he hopes to get back onto the body.

Earlier this week Mr Hollinrake tweeted about a visit to Grenfell Tower, and said that after a meeting with survivors he had asked the Prime Minister to provide incentives for housing providers to install sprinkler systems in tower blocks.

Although such systems are required in all newly built blocks, there is currently no requirement to retrofit them in older buildings.

Mr Hollinrake also tweeted he had heard no reports of survivors facing threats of being declared “intentionally homeless” if they refused new homes miles away.

Evidence of that would be “very useful” to a future inquiry, he wrote.

His pleas come as it emerges that only two-thirds of council houses in York have smoke detectors, and city schools are being checked for the type of aluminium cladding used on Grenfell Tower.