Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to use the Fire Kills campaign to increase awareness of fires caused by electricity.

The Fire Kills campaign is planned to launch and run for four weeks across national media. The campaign, run in close partnership with Fire and Rescue Services in England, seeks to prevent deaths from all types of fire in the home. The campaign encourages the public to test their smoke alarms regularly to ensure they are working in the event in any type of fire, including those caused by electricity.

In addition, Fire Kills and Electrical Safety First have a longstanding and close partnership to promote electrical fire safety messages, including through the annual Electrical Fire Safety Week, which runs in November each year.

The campaign also supports the Register My Appliance initiative, run by the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Electrical Appliances. This is designed to improve recall rates and ensure a greater number of faulty products can be traced and either repaired or removed from homes.