HC Deb 18 January 1996 vol 269 cc686-7W
Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many incidents of carbon monoxide poisoning annually resulting in deaths and injury are(a) in rented property and (b) in owner-occupied property. [9707]

Mr. John M. Taylor

I have been asked to reply.

Statistics are not available on the relative numbers of cases of carbon monoxide poisoning in rented property and in owner-occupier property. The risk of CO poisoning owing to faulty heating appliances is equally likely with any heating appliance which is not properly installed or maintained, and there are reported fatalities and injuries in the press of incidents in both types of accommodation.