Accidents in the Home

HC Deb 15 May 1981 vol 4 cc356-7W

Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what amount per annum is allocated for campaigns to prevent accidents in the home.

Mrs. Sally Oppenheim

Annual expenditure for the last three years by my Department on publicity to prevent accidents at home has been:

	1980–81	1979–80	1978–79
	£	£	£
Department of Trade Publicity	82,000	38,000	52,000
Grant-in-aid to The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)	45,000	36,000	33,000
Total	127,000	74,000	85,000

Department of Trade publicity covers such items as production of television filler films, a schools' safety pack and, in 1980, information about the Upholstered Furniture (Safety) Regulations. The grant-in-aid to RoSPA is to enable it to conduct national publicity campaigns and to help finance the provision of publicity material on home safety.