Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the University of Central Lancashire's report entitled Minimising firefighters’ exposure to toxic fire effluents, published in November 2020.

The Home Office takes very seriously the health and safety of those firefighters who risk their lives for our communities every day.

The Home Office is reviewing recent academic research to evaluate risks posed by contaminants and the effectiveness of decontamination procedures, and we will share our findings with the Fire and Rescue Authorities, who hold the legal responsibility to protect firefighters against those risks.