§ Mrs. RocheTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) children and (b) adults were (i) injured or (ii) killed in fires in 1993 in houses in multiple occupation; and what proportion the fatality figure of the total domestic fatalities was caused by fire.
§ Mr. MacleanInformation is not available for 1993. For 1992, the age of fatal and non-fatal casualties from fires attended by local authority fire brigades in houses in multiple occupancies is published in table 23 of the Home Office publication, "Fire Statistics, United Kingdom 1992". Information on deaths from accidents occurring in the home and communal establishments, by cause, is published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in table 3 of "Mortality Statistics 1992, Injury and Poisoning: England and Wales", series DH4 No. 18. Copies of these publications are in the Library.