HC Deb 27 November 1980 vol 994 cc140-1W
Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fires in psychiatric and other hospitals were attended by fire brigades in the last five years for which statistics are available; and how many involved fatal and non-fatal casualties, rescues, escapes or evacuations.

Mr. Brittan

Information on numbers of fires in psychiatric and other hospitals and on the number of fatal casualties and non-fatal casualties involved is published annually in "Fire Statistics United Kingdom"—table 24 of the issue for 1978; figures for 1979 are due to be published early in 1981 and figures for 1975 are not available. Full information on numbers of such fires in which casualties, rescues, escapes and evacuations occurred could be provided only at disproportionate cost.