Housing: Fire Prevention

(asked on 26th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking further to reduce the number of fires in homes.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 4th November 2016

The Department’s Fire Kills campaign, run in close partnership with fire and rescue services in England, promotes a range of domestic fire safety messages to ensure householders take appropriate action to prevent accidental fires and understand how best they can protect themselves and their families. Fire Kills national advertising, launching later this month, will run for four weeks reminding people of the importance of smoke alarms and the need to test them monthly to ensure they are working in the event of a fire. Beyond the advertising, the Department works in partnership with a range of commercial and voluntary sector organisations to deliver targeted fire safety messages to relevant groups and communities.

Throughout the year, the campaign runs a range of initiatives and awareness weeks, often in collaboration with relevant agencies. These activities raise awareness of key fire safety messages nationally, while providing a framework for local delivery and engagement by fire and rescue services who have statutory duty to promote fire safety in their areas to the extent it considers it reasonable to do so.

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