§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why universities offering bedroom accommodation on a casual basis to paying guests are exempted from the fire precautions regulations applicable to hotels and boardinghouses.
§ Dr. SummerskillFire Precautions (Hotels and Boarding Houses) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972 No. 238) contains no specific exemption for university premises. Whether the provision by a university of sleeping accommodation for guests on a casual basis brings the premises within the scope of the order depends upon the facts of the particular case. Fire authorities have been informed of the position.