HC Deb 27 March 1969 vol 780 cc351-2W
Mr. Oakes

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set up a working party to investigate the causes of domestic fires and the methods of advising parents of the ways to prevent them,

Mr. Merlyn Rees

Information about the causes of domestic fires, based on detailed reports sent in by brigades, is already published annually by the Joint Fire Research Organisation. Methods of advising parents and others on fire prevention in the home are constantly under consideration by the Information Sub-Committee of the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Councils for England and Wales and for Scotland. In these circumstances, I see no need for a special working party.