§ Mr. Buchanan-Smithasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what have been the numbers of deaths and of persons suffering serious injury as a result of fires in the home in each of the past 10 years and to the nearest convenient date this year.
§ Mr. RossFigures of deaths and of persons who suffered injury as a result of fires in the home in Scotland have been collected centrally only since 1961 and are given in the table below. The figures for non-fatal injuries do not distinguish between serious and less serious injury.
Fatal Non-Fatal 1961 21 70 1962 30 106 1963 80 172 1964 63 89 1965 68 256 1966 87 337 1967* 81 250 1968* 89 306 1969* (to date) 27 39 * The figures for these years are provisional.