HC Deb 22 July 1975 vol 896 cc120-2W
Mr. Adley

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, by local authority areas in England and Wales, the number of hotels which have (a) applied for a fire certificate, (b) been inspected by the fire officer and (c) not applied for a certificate in accordance with the provisions of the Fire Precautions Act.

Fire certificate applications (1) Premises inspected (2) Estimated number of premises that have not applied (3)
Fire authority
Avon 662 167
Bedfordshire 71 69
Berkshire 124 106
Buckinghamshire 141 38 15
Cambridgeshire 136 122
Cheshire 167 122 40
Cleveland 135 91 5
Clwyd 567 238 50
Cornwall 4,205 705 5,000
Cumbria 1,565 612 250
Derbyshire 227 222 30
Devon 4,550 408 200
Dorset 2,873 175 2,000
Durham 74 69
Dyfed 834 222 400
Essex 401 315
Mid Glamorgan 80 70 8
South Glamorgan 106 94 25
West Glamorgan 171 157
Gloucestershire 453 154
Gwent 160 40 20
Gwynedd 1,579 266
Hampshire 929 158 72
Hereford and Worcester 354 133 48
Hertfordshire 149 59
Humberside 697 199 1,200
Kent 1,412 463 100
Lancashire 3,438 1,765 500
Leicestershire 181 66 1
Lincolnshire 355 275 100
Greater London 1,475 1,422 500
Greater Manchester 237 212
Merseyside 392 316 52
Norfolk 1,178 462 500
Northamptonshire 73 72 10
Northumberland 246 246 9
Nottinghamshire 139 106
Oxfordshire 229 92
Powys 283 34 100
Salop 176 98
Isles of Scilly 71 16
Somerset 658 50
Staffordshire 189 160
Suffolk 397 198 200
Surrey 166 163
East Sussex 1,207 443
West Sussex 413 124 270
Tyne and Wear 191 190 20
Warwickshire 170 162
West Midlands 325 234
Isle of Wight 932 136 2,000
Wiltshire 238 54
North Yorkshire 1,697 398 85
South Yorkshire 109 91
West Yorkshire 269 212 30
Totals 38,256 13,271 13,840

(i) The figures in columns (1) and (2) do not include premises found on inspection to be outside the scope of the Fire Precautions (Hotels and Boarding Houses) Order 1972 or subsequently taken outside the scope of the order.

(ii) Fire authorities have no precise information about cases of failure to apply for a fire certificate and the figures in column (3) should be regarded as only rough estimates.

Dr. Summerskill

According to information provided by fire authorities the position as at 31st December 1974 was as follows:

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