Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of incidents attended by the Fire and Rescue Service have been related to fireworks in each year since 2010.

The table below shows the total number of fires attended by Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs) in England and the number and proportion which involved fireworks, for each financial year since 2010/11, as recorded by FRSs in the Home Office Incident Recording System (IRS).

Fires involving fireworks include those in which fireworks were recorded as: the main cause of the fire; the source of ignition; the first item ignited in the fire; the item which caused the spread or rapid growth of the fire; or were recorded as a dangerous or explosive substance involved the fire.

Note that the count of “All fires attended” in the table above excludes non-fire incidents attended by FRSs, such as false alarms and medical co-responding incidents.

Detailed data on the causes and locations of fire for 2015/16 will be published in 2017.