§ Mr. Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the amount of loss in terms of life, injury and damage to property as a result of fire in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. BrittanInformation on casualties from fires reported as attended by local authority fire brigades is published annually in "United Kingdom Fire Statistics"—table V of the volume for 1977. Estimates of the cost of fire damage are published by the British Insurance Association in "Insurance Facts and Figures 1977". Copies of both publications are in the Library of the House.
§ Mr. Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what have been the principal causes of reported fires in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. BrittanInformation on the principal sources of ignition of fires in occupied buildings and in certain outdoor locations reported as attended by local authority fire brigades is published annually in "United Kingdom Fire Statistics"—tables II and 32 of the volume for 1977—but figures for certain outdoor locations are available on this basis only for the years 1974, 1976 and 1977. Copies of these publications are334W in the Library of the House. Information on the sources of ignition of fires in other types of location could be provided only at disproportionate cost.