HC Deb 09 July 1985 vol 82 cc389-90W
Mr. Burt

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will give the figures for fatal and non-fatal casualties from accidental fires in dwellings by source of ignition in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984;

(2) if he will give the latest available figures of fires in dwellings and other occupied buildings by source of ignition.

Mr. Giles Shaw

Information for the years 1978 to 1983 on casualties in accidental fires in dwellings in the United Kingdom, analysed by source of ignition, is published in table 11 of the issue of "Fire Statistics United Kingdom" for 1983. A more detailed analysis by source of ignition of the numbers of all fires in both dwellings and other occupied buildings and of the resulting casualties, is given for 1983 in table 32 of this publication. Corresponding analyses for earlier years are published in the issues for those years, except that for years before 1981, this more detailed analysis was on a slightly different basis. Information for 1984 is not yet available.