Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Office, how many call outs the fire service has received for incidents related to barbecues in each of the last ten years, broken down by fire authority.

The Home Office publishes figures on accidental primary fires started by barbecues at a national level in table FIRE0605, available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#cause-of-fire. The data is available from 2010/11 to 2018/19 but is not broken down by fire and rescue service.

In 2018/19, there were 315 accidental primary fires started by barbecues in England. Of these, 112 were dwelling fires, 97 in other buildings, 90 outdoors and 16 road vehicles.